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Friday, February 13, 2015

Inspections ordered after concrete falls from bridge

ANNAPOLIS, Md. —Maryland's acting transportation secretary orders inspections of all state-owned bridges that are similar to one on which a piece of concrete fell off this week onto a car below.

Pete Rahn said Thursday the directive for 27 bridges will help the state immediately identify any bridges in need of repair.

The inspections will start immediately and take several days.

Each inspection will involve teams of specially-trained bridge inspectors to identify and repair any loose concrete. The bridges that are being inspected were all built before 1969 and have traffic underneath.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought all bridges were inspected on a regular basis. Stupid me for thinking our government would spend my tax money on appropriate things like the funding of transportation. Maybe it is time for new inspectors that do the job properly.

Anonymous said...

What ever happened to those trillion dollar stimulus packages that were supposed to be spent on repairing roads and bridges?

Anonymous said...

Once again Wait until someone dies then inspect.

Anonymous said...

But our priority should be giving vet retirement a tax break?

Steve said...

No, 824, Gay marriage is much more important than that. Just ask the Pollocks who are still laughing at our rain tax!

We are their comedy show on Pol TV!