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Where America’s Bridges Are Crumbling [CHART]
Surivalnomics ^ | 04/06/2021

Posted on 04/06/2021 8:37:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Back in August 2007, the dangerous and decaying state of America's infrastructure became a shocking reality when the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, sending vehicles crashing into the river below. 13 people were killed while another 145 were injured. In August 2018, a bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy, shocked the world with 43 people losing their lives. After that catastrophe, many countries, including the United States, started to seriously look at the state of their deteriorating infrastructure.

Last week, as Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, President Biden unveiled his plans for a $2 trillion investment in American infrastructure, describing it as "a once-in-a-generation effort". It would involve replacing lead piping, rebuilding 20,000 miles of roads and repairing the country's 10 most economically important bridges. Biden described the program as "unlike anything we have seen or done since we built the interstate highway system and the space race decades ago". He added that it would be "the largest American jobs investment since World War II".

After the announcement, a report from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) illustrated the scale of the challenge in overhauling and repairing U.S. infrastructure by finding that more than 220,000 American bridges need repair work. 45,000 of them were deemed structurally deficient and Americans cross them 171.5 million times daily. At the current rate, it would take more than 40 years to fix all of them and cost an estimated $41.8 billion.

The good news is that the number of structurally deficient bridges has declined for the past five years but that trend has been tempered by more bridges being downgraded from good to fair condition.

Infographic: Where America's Bridges Are Crumbling | Statista

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Out of all U.S. states, Iowa has the most structurally deficient bridges, 4,571 or 19.1 percent of its total bridges. Pennsylvania comes second on the list with 3,353 of its bridges falling into the same category, along with 2,374 in Illinois.

West Virginia has the highest share of bridges classified as structurally deficient at 21 percent while Nevada has the lowest at just 1.4 percent.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: america; bridges; crumbling; infrastructure
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1 posted on 04/06/2021 8:37:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This was all fixed by obama and biden back in 2009.


2 posted on 04/06/2021 8:45:55 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I was wondering how long it would take the shills to come out.


3 posted on 04/06/2021 8:47:41 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SeekAndFind

I really hope that when they build these bridges that they don’t just rush in and do a replacement. Instead they should invite architects, artists, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, etc. to provide their input so that these bridges will be bridges to tomorrow and not bridges to the patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and transphobic past.


4 posted on 04/06/2021 8:48:06 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: minnesota_bound

So if it will only cost $42B to repair or replace the structurally deficient bridges, then where is the the other $1,950B going to be spent?

Doesn’t anybody ask tough questions anymore?


5 posted on 04/06/2021 8:49:10 PM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No multi trillion dollar spending can repair our mentally deficient “POTUS” which is a whole worse problem.


6 posted on 04/06/2021 8:55:34 PM PDT by A strike (Say No to North Mexico )
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To: SeekAndFind

/laughs in Western Maryland


7 posted on 04/06/2021 9:05:24 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: SeekAndFind

The I 35 bridge was an engineering failure. The rest are targeted by the (ahem) bridge builders industry. Naturally they think every bridge in the country needs to be replaced. It’s called job security. But ask yourself, how many bridges do you know of that have actually “crumbled” in the last 20 years.


8 posted on 04/06/2021 9:05:40 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They ain’t kiddin’ about WV.

522 across the river is gamble, every time.

[are we *supposed* to see the seams and rebar sticking up like that?!?]


9 posted on 04/06/2021 9:07:01 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: minnesota_bound

That’s what I thought too.


10 posted on 04/06/2021 9:18:57 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: hinckley buzzard

I recall 1.


11 posted on 04/06/2021 9:20:13 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: SeekAndFind

Here comes the tsunami of media propaganda to buttress the Biden mega pork bill


12 posted on 04/06/2021 9:24:33 PM PDT by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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A Major Infrastructure Bill Clears Congress The House and Senate send President Obama the largest transportation package in more than a decade, costing $305 billion over five years.

RUSSELL BERMAN

DECEMBER 4, 2015

.....guess they ran out of money.

13 posted on 04/07/2021 1:35:06 AM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I-84 viaduct west of Hartford is a problem. They are thinking of tunneling it and fix the I-84/I-91 interchange/Mixmaster problem, freeing up lots of riverfront land in Hartford and East Hartford. I’d love to see that fix.


14 posted on 04/07/2021 2:52:41 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Rest In PEACE, Rush H. Limbaugh III. You are missed already...)
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To: SeekAndFind

But are they shovel ready?


15 posted on 04/07/2021 2:59:08 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

You have great vision, FRiend!

We should have black BLM bridges, pink feminist bridges, rainbow LGBTQ+ bridges, green-white-red Mexican bridges, plant-covered green bridges, Lego youth bridges...


16 posted on 04/07/2021 4:13:40 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...lyet.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Naturally they think every bridge in the country needs to be replaced. It’s called job security.”

Just like coders say every app needs to be updated. It’s called job security.


17 posted on 04/07/2021 4:15:16 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...lyet.)
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To: montag813

“Here comes the tsunami of media propaganda to buttress the Biden mega pork bill.”

“We need good bridges to guarantee people can get their annual vaccinations without danger!”


18 posted on 04/07/2021 4:17:19 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...lyet.)
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To: beancounter13

That money is going to go to the same place that a trillion dollar Obama infrastructure went. Down the memory hole and into private politicians bank accounts, bribe money, DNC bucks, blackmail, illegal aliens, and foreign entities to be laundered and returned to Biden admin.

Everything will still be crumbling because who wants to sped good bucks on shitholes where the peons live.


19 posted on 04/07/2021 4:30:08 AM PDT by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
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To: dforest

So when the report came out 2007; Oregon took it upon itself to fix/repair all the bridges in the state.

So the State that acts responsible to a crisis get NOTHING; and the States who act responsibly get Billions.

And people wonder why the States do not fix anything.


20 posted on 04/07/2021 7:03:30 AM PDT by CoastWatcher
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