Report: 1 In 10 Ohio Bridges Not Structurally Sound

[upstatecajun]

Source: 10 TV News Columbus

COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than 12 of the city's bridges are structurally deficient, according to a transportation reform group's report.

Transportation For America's report looked at inspector's ratings for bridges across the nation and deemed that any bridge that received a rating of five or less in any of three areas meant that the bridge was deficient.

In Ohio, nearly one in 10 bridges was labeled structurally deficient, 10TV's Josh Poland reported. The state's rank was No. 29 in the U.S.



Read more: http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2011/04/01/story-columbus-ohio-bridges.html?sid=102

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[hatrack]

1. Well, better get to work cutting taxes, then!

Come on, Gov. Kasich - let's get moving!!!

[woo me with science]

2. Infrastructure schminfrastructure!

Just ask Governor Pawlenty of Minnesota!

[Newest Reality]

3. Crumbling Infrastructure is

our national heritage now. If you listen, you can hear it all creaking, moaning, cracking and collapsing.

Maybe it is because taxes are still too high for those who matter, or something like that? Perhaps a negative income tax for the deadbeat rich and their corporate veils will solve this? Pay them to let us use the country they own? We shouldn't get to use what is theirs for free, should we?

Yeah, that's the ticket!

[Cirque du So-What]

4. It seems I've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire

moving from OH to PA as I did:

Report: Pa. bridges worst in U.S.

Associated Press

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania has the largest percentage of structurally deficient bridges in the nation, according to a new report, leaving state officials to question where the money will come from to fix the problems.
The group Transportation for America released a report Wednesday saying Pennsylvania has 5,906 deficient bridges, about 26.5 percent of the 22,271 in the state. Oklahoma ranked second with 22 percent of its bridges rated deficient, compared with 11.5 percent of all bridges nationwide, according to the report.

Pennsylvania has had the highest percentage of deficient bridges each year since 2007, according to the group, which promotes transportation spending. What remains to be seen is where the state will get the funds to fix bridges.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Thursday that Gov. Corbett will name a task force next month to develop long-term transportation funding strategies, according to Barry Schoch, Corbett's nominee for state transportation secretary.

more...

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/119045444.html

My story qualifies as LBN as well, but this is alright.

[phantom power]

5. I'm sure it's nothing The Invisible Hand can't handle

:eyes:

[louslobbs]

6. And 9 out of 10 of OH Republicons are certifiable lunatics so it would stand to reason that their

infrastructure would be unsafe and unstable to go along with their unsafe and unstable minds.
Lou

[Warpy]

7. It's getting scary out there

if you pay attention to what's holding up most highway bridges and overpasses. While they've redone quite a few in my town, the ones outside the city are crumbling apace.

The whole Interstate system was sold as a national security measure, but the rich have looted this country at every level, starving government of the funding it needs to maintain all this stuff so that now this country is not only rotting from the head down, it's rotting from the inside out.

Taxing the richest at a confiscatory rate until the multiple crises of infrastructure failure, near bankruptcy level debt, and the loss of manufacturing infrastructure are addressed and dangling a reduction to a top marginal rate of 70% in front of them once they pony up what they cheated the country out of for over 30 years is simply something that will have to be done if this country wants to survive.

Shoveling wealth at the richest has done exactly what we on the left said it would in 1980: impoverished most of this country's people while wrecking nearly everything that was worthy of admiration from the rest of the world.

Folks, it's time to STEAL IT BACK.

[Aerows]

8. Try riding through New Orleans

The roads there, even before the hurricane were awful.

Our land is falling apart at the seams and no one gives a crap.

[OhioChick]

9. I won't even go over the Innerbelt bridge...

:scared:

[Doremus]

15. You & me both. If one beam moves in that bridge, the whole thing is toast.

As well as anybody who happens to be on it. :scared:

[OhioChick]

16. The last that I heard, it's once again open for trucks.

I have a bad feeling that it's coming down soon.

:scared:

[atreides1]

18. You might get lucky

The day it happens Kasich will be crossing it...

[Curmudgeoness]

10. We got you beat! We're number one! Pennsylvania---1 in 4.

Pennsylvania has the largest percentage of structurally deficient bridges in the nation, according to a new report, leaving state officials to question where the money will come from to fix the problems.
The group Transportation for America released a report Wednesday saying Pennsylvania has 5,906 deficient bridges, about 26.5 percent of the 22,271 in the state. Oklahoma ranked second with 22 percent of its bridges rated deficient, compared with 11.5 percent of all bridges nationwide, according to the report.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/119045444.html

[spin]

11. Lots of good jobs rebuilding the infrastructure ...

I thought Obama was going to do that.

Did all the money go to the banks and Wall Street?

[pasto76]

13. most but not all. Ive been on stimulus project for 6 months

[spin]

17. Good. Glad to hear it. I hope more get employed on such projects.

We need jobs to get this recovery on track.

[WCGreen]

12. PRIVATIZETHE BRIDGES!!!!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. This is both sad and funny at the same time!

:P

:hi:

[CanonRay]

19. And they are barely in the bottom half

how bad are the bridges in #50?

Let's cut taxes and fix those bridges! :crazy:

[happyslug]

20. Pennsylvania is worse, one every four bridges are bad.

Ohio is only the 29th state with the worse bridges, Pennsylvania is #1.

Actual Site of the report:
http://t4america.org/resources/bridges/?latlng=39.9611755,-82.99879420000002&bridge_id=2507927#?latlng=39.9612933,-82.99776509999998&bridge_id=2507927

The actual Report (PDF File):
http://t4america.org/docs/bridgereport/bridgereport-national.pdf

[sakabatou]

21. Hey, how about hiring Americans to fix the US infrastructure?

But NOOOO, that'd be too simple.

[Lady President]

22. Lovely-- drive under one everyday

I have to drive under one of the two the article mentioned everyday to and from work. Very comforting...