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— this post authored by Niall McCarthy
Back in August 2007, the dangerous and decaying state of America’s infrastructure became a shocking reality when the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, sending vehicles crashing into the river below – 13 people were killed while another 145 were injured.
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A decade later, a new analysis by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has found that 54,259 bridges in the U.S. are structurally deficient. Placed end-to-end, they would stretch 1,216 miles, nearly the distance from New York City to Miami.
U.S. drivers cross those bridges 174 million times a day and on average, a structurally deficient bridge is 67 years old. Dr. Alison Premo Black carried out the analysis for the ARTBA and she has said that if things continue at their current pace, it would take 37 years to repair all of the bridges that need attention. With a total of 5,067 of them, Iowa has the most structurally deficient bridges, followed by Pennsylvania (4,174) and Oklahoma (3,234).
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