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	BlogMerit.com - Fatal Bridge Tradgedy Over the Mississippi

Digi-Words

8-2-2007 8:07 PM

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Tragic story of a bridge collapsing over the Mississippi in Minneapolis, MN during rush hour Thursday evening.

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treated the collapse of a highway bridge that killed or injured
dozens of people as a jarring wake-up call to fix the nation's
aging roads and bridges, but experts have been sounding the
alarm for years with limited success.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-08-02T210321Z_01_N02376862_RTRIDST_0_BRIDGE-COLLAPSE-INFRASTRUCTURE.XML"><P> Governors in at least four states -- Illinois, Minnesota,
Iowa and Pennsylvania -- ordered new bridge inspections or were
considering them following the collapse of the highway bridge
over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis on Wednesday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-08-02T210321Z_01_N02376862_RTRIDST_0_BRIDGE-COLLAPSE-INFRASTRUCTURE.XML"><P> Bush, he said, "failed to support a robust investment in
surface transportation," adding the president insisted on only
$2 billion a year for bridge reconstruction when lawmakers were
pushing for $3 billion a year.
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