Word: thruway
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When ten motorists died in the collapse of the Schoharie Creek bridge on the New York Thruway in April 1987, concern about America's decaying infrastructure turned urgent. Last week a report by the National Transportation Safety Board cited inadequate maintenance on the bridge and warned that similar conditions could exist nationwide. "We know there are 43,000 bridges around the country that have not been inspected even in the last two years," said Chairman James Burnett. Four more Schoharie-type bridges in Virginia and New York have collapsed in the past year...
...this happens in about the first 10 minutes, and then it's off on the yellow brick road, in this case the New York Thruway, to search for Elmore. It's here that, according to the press kit, "the realities and illusions of the open road confront Julius with his own fears, with who he is, as opposed to who he thinks he is, with losing himself in order to find himself..." and so on and so forth. But believe me, it isn't nearly that exciting...
...galleries' usual murmur of quiet commentary hushed to tense whispers. The gaggle of interns in the corner "ladies' gallery" asked each other "What's the score?" "Was that number 30 or 31?" Meanwhile, on the New York State Thruway, a bridge waited to collapse...
About 25,000 vehicles cross the bridge in a typical 24-hour period of heavy traffic, a thruway official said. The thruway runs from the New York City area north to Albany, then west to the Buffalo area...
...Thruway spokesman Raymond Makay said replacement of a bridge usually takes two years but that authorities would try to speed up work on a new span...