Bridging the gap : restoring and rebuilding the nation's bridges.
As the nation approaches the August 1 anniversary of the Minneapolis I-35W Bridge tragedy, AASHTO released Bridging the Gap: Restoring and Rebuilding the Nation's Bridges, a new report that outlines the critical challenges ahead. The report discusses the aging of our nation's bridges, the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials,
2008.
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| Summary: | As the nation approaches the August 1 anniversary of the Minneapolis I-35W Bridge tragedy, AASHTO released Bridging the Gap: Restoring and Rebuilding the Nation's Bridges, a new report that outlines the critical challenges ahead. The report discusses the aging of our nation's bridges, the increasing costs to repair or modernize the bridges, the growing traffic congestion cause by bottlenecks on our interstates and the epidemic of rising construction costs. Bridging the Gap points out several solutions to these growing problems, including increased investment in transportation at all levels of government, support for a wide range of revenue options such as tolls, tax increases, annual road user fees, bonds or private investment, commitment to research and innovation, systematic maintenance to extend the life of bridges and increased public awareness that bridges are vital links to business and communities. The report also includes a time table of the I-35W Bridge collapse and reconstruction from August 1, 2007 to June 19, 2008, statistics of U.S. bridges per state, age of U.S. bridge inventory chart, terms related to how bridge conditions are rated, and a brief description of the bridge disasters and recoveries in California (The MacArthur Maze, April 29, 2007), Missouri (Jefferson Street Bridge, Nov. 27, 2007), and Oklahoma (Interstate 40 Bridge, May 26, 2002). |
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| Item Description: | Cover title. "July 2008." "Pub code: BTG-1"-- page [4] of cover. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 61 pages : color illustrations, color charts, color photographs ; 28 cm. Also available online via the AASHTO website. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 61). |
| ISBN: | 9781560514251 1560514256 |