And why is that? They have money for maintanence, but just you watch.
They are going to call for a ‘public/private’ partnership with some foreign company like Macquerie or Cintra, because Americans can’t afford to build their own highway bridges. To make it worth their while, the foreign company is going to charge tolls with a guaranteed return by the US taxpayer.
You wait and see.
You folks need to come to western Kentucky and Indiana and take a look at our main bridges going over the Ohio river. They are ancient, and are being painted right now, but they are old, have been there forever, have been subjected to countless floods, and are of different design. They are on US 41, and I am amazed that none of the earmarks and pork have found their way here to replace them. It will take a major disaster like the one in Minnesota to get some attention.