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Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Maryland Among Top 10 States With The Lowest Percentage Of 'Structurally Deficient' Bridges

A White House report estimates one in four bridges in the U.S. needs significant repairs or can't handle today's traffic.

President Barack Obama is expected to sign a temporary fix this week to keep money flowing to the Highway Trust Fund, which pays for road and bridge construction and maintenance throughout the country and here in Maryland.

In his 21 year career as an inspector with the Maryland State Highway Administration , Edward Swift has been above and below many of the Maryland's State Highway Administration's 2,500 bridges.
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

So our tax money does do something good. I prefer the bridges I drive over be structurally sound.

Anonymous said...

3:40 I agree. And 1 good thing for every 500 bad things is good, right?

Anonymous said...

don't need bridges!
Maryland has enough fairies running around.

Anonymous said...

Good grief,are there actually wooden bridges still in the St of Md highway system? If that is a legit photo and not a file photo from somewhere else there must be.