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From the rusting spans of its once proud bridges to the leaking sewers beneath its streets, America is structurally unsound. Highways are crumbling. Avenues are cracking. Trains jump their worn-out tracks. Coal ships languish outside overburdened ports. While the U. S. has the technological prowess to blast a magnificent...
These conditions are neither isolated nor unrelated. Urban planners and a growing number of politicians are worried about the bridges and byways, streets and sewers that make up the infrastructure of the U.S. economy. After decades of neglect by all levels of government much of that foundation is now in...
Bridges. One of every five bridges in the U.S. needs major rehabilitation. Fortunately, those on the brink of breakdown are usually closed to traffic. In Ohio, 605 bridges have been blocked off, but 4,000 others that show ominous signs of deterioration are still in use. More than half of...
The cost of fixing U.S. bridges could run as high as $33 billion, but states and cities can spend just a small fraction of that amount. Federal aid for bridge repairs is only $1.3 billion this year. Admits Daniel Mines, an engineer for the State of Michigan: "Bridges are falling...
No one knows how much it would cost to modernize the entire infrastructure of the U.S. economy. Pat Choate, co-author of the America in Ruins study, estimates that the task could take as much as $3 trillion, roughly the amount of the annual gross national product at present. Amitai...