The bridge is the state’s busiest, and carries approximately 141,000 vehicles per day.
Problems found in 2005
The White House said an inspection of the 40-year-old bridge in 2005 found problems. The Interstate 35W span rated 50 on a scale of 100 for structural stability and was classified as “structurally deficient,” transportation officials said.
The designation means some portions of the bridge needed to be scheduled for repair or replacement. “It didn’t mean that the bridge is unsafe,” Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said.
I have kept my mouth shut as long as I can. The officials got on TV today and made excuse and assured the people they would do all they could to solve this problem.
The one I like best was even if the bridge was found deficient it was SAFE. Sure it just fell down , whoops.
I remember reading several years ago that our intfrastructures were unsafe. We pay taxes at the pump every time we by gas, where did the money go? into some of the officials pockets that were telling us today we will get to the bottom of this. The bottom is the bed of the might Mississippi river.
The whole things makes me sick.
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Did most of our money go to Iraq instead of into our country's intrastructure?
It is like most things in the country now adays nothing is fixed or really looked at till people get killed. Every state is inspecting all of there bridges right now.
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