19 Structurally Deficient Bridges That Americans Drive Over Every Day
Business Insider’s Henry Blodget recently wrote on the need for infrastructure spending in the United States.
Something that drives that point home is how badly some of our essential infrastructure has decayed. As of last year, 11.5 percent of US bridges, crossed by an average of 282,672,680 vehicles daily, were graded as structurally deficient by the Federal Highway Administration.
Private construction is way up, but reduced public spending is a drag on the economy.
When we have 8.2 percent…
19 Structurally Deficient Bridges That Americans Drive Over Every Day originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-07-02T17:45:00Z.
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