Iowa's Bridges Still among Nation's Worst, 10 Years after Minneapolis' Bridge Collapse

[TBoneTX 45,570]

This story isn't just about Iowa and is interesting reading, I think.

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Iowa's Bridges Still among Nation's Worst, 10 Years after Minneapolis' Bridge Collapse

William Petroski, bpetrosk@dmreg.com
Published 4:44 p.m. CT July 28, 2017
Updated 7:55 a.m. CT July 31, 2017

A decade after the catastrophic collapse of an interstate bridge in Minneapolis, Iowa's bridges are still among the nation's worst.

The I-35W bridge tragedy on Aug. 1, 2007, killed 13 people and injured 135 others when the eight-lane structure over the Mississippi River failed amid evening rush hour traffic. Federal investigators blamed a design flaw as the likely cause and cited additional weight on the 43-year-old bridge that day.

The Minnesota disaster sparked a national debate and worries about America's deteriorating infrastructure. Those concerns were particularly felt in Iowa, which has 24,184 bridges -- the seventh-most nationally, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation.

Ten years later, Iowa's bridge statistics still reflect a large, aging rural system in need of repairs.

Iowa has 4,968 bridges rated as structurally deficient. That number ranks No. 1 in the nation based on overall numbers and No. 2 based on the percentage (21 percent) of deficient bridges, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, an industry group that analyzed 2016 federal highway data.

But Lyle Brehm, a county engineer in Tama and Powershiek counties and a spokesman for the Iowa County Engineers Association, said motorists shouldn't be worried when they get behind the wheel.

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Edited July 31, 2017 by TBoneTX

[IAMX 3,055]

Not gonna do squat until something serious happens and the state loses a whole #######-ton of money.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

I thought the former so called President fixed the infrastructure problem with all the stimulus money 

[IAMX 3,055]

1 hour ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

I thought the former so called President fixed the infrastructure problem with all the stimulus money 

He was so dreamy, I forget what happened, but I assume he probably saved with Obamabridges.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

3 hours ago, IAMX said:

Not gonna do squat until something serious happens and the state loses a whole #######-ton of money.

Obama wanted to pass a major Infrastructure Bill after he got Health Care out of the way but the Republicans in the Senate blocked him because they kept on saying we couldn't afford it.

 

Now Donnie is in the White House and all of a sudden the National Debt doesn't matter.

[smilesammich 10,727]

calm down with this infrastructure talk, trump is busy forming his admin - hiring and firing is really all he can do in between tweets.