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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kiernan: [QB] Highway bridges are inspected every other year, at a minimum. Even the small low-traffic-volume bridges that we have on the Santa Fe National Forest are inspected every other year. What happened to the people on the bridge is terrible, but I also worry about the people who inspected the bridge last time. It is quite likely that witnesses heard "explosions." When a structure like that fails, the sounds of the pieces coming apart can seem to be explosions. This is a problem of money. You can solve problems by throwing money at them, the Defense Department does it all the time. It is way past time for us to increase taxes to pay for the infrastructure problems that we have in this country. We have roads and bridges and airports and railroads and ocean ports that we have to fix. You can't have an economy and society like ours without transportation. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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