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Teamster Jeff

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Fri Feb 15, 2013, 04:32 PM Feb 2013

The President proposes a plan to “Fix It First” [View all]

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With the country watching, President Obama shone a national spotlight on the pressing issue of dangerous and deficient bridges on roads all across our country.

“Tonight, I propose a “Fix It First” program to put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs, like the nearly 70,000 structurally deficient bridges across the country.”
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Here is a cool interactive map that shows all deficient bridges within a 10 mile radius of any US address.

http://t4america.org/resources/bridges/

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