Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bridges

Obama Recalls Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Media Blunders the Story

By Marybeth Miceli | Apr 21, 2011 | No Comments

(Marybeth Miceli is the President of Miceli Infrastructure Consulting, LLC. She is a bridge testing and assessment specialist and materials scientist with a background in Nondestructive Testing/Evaluation. She has just completed a 3-year term on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), who named her “Young NDT Professional of the […]

Transportation for America Calls on Congress to Fix Nation’s Bridges

By Kathryn Reid Moore | Mar 31, 2011 | 2 Comments

Residents in New York and Vermont were shocked in 2009 when the Champlain/Crown Point Bridge was suddenly closed without warning. At the time, the bridge carried about 3,500 cars between the two states daily. Today, those trips have to be taken by ferry or over the next closest bridge, 100 miles away. Few people think […]

“Gravity Always Wins”: How the U.S. Can Face the Crisis of Unsafe Bridges

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 20, 2010 | 12 Comments

If you left your grandma’s old wicker chair out on the porch all winter – and the next, and the next, and the next for 20 years – would you still trust that chair to hold you if you sat down? According to Barry LePatner, author of the new book Too Big to Fall: America’s […]

Bikes on Bridges: A How-To Guide for Advocates

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 10, 2010 | 2 Comments

The country’s crisis of crumbling infrastructure could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand bicycle access. With one out of every four U.S. bridges deemed deficient, obsolete, or inadequate, a spate of bridge reconstruction is already overdue. And as planners start engineering the improvements, pedestrians and cyclists have to make sure they’re part of the process. […]

New Report Takes on ‘Perverse Incentives’ to De-Emphasize Bridge Repair

By Elana Schor | Apr 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

When Minneapolis’ I-35 bridge collapsed in 2007, lawmakers from both parties vowed to focus on shoring up the nation’s aging infrastructure. But when the public spotlight faded from the issue of infrastructure repair, Congress showed little appetite for setting aside maintenance aid that did not hold the promise of ribbon-cutting ceremonies or campaign donations. The […]

Bike-Ped Access to Cleveland’s New Bridge Picking Up Political Support

By Elana Schor | Mar 12, 2010 | No Comments

The push to add a bike-ped lane to Cleveland’s planned new Cuyahoga River bridge, a replacement for the crumbling Innerbelt span, is picking up new political support this week after a local advocacy campaign. The existing Innerbelt Bridge is in line for a $450 million replacement. (Photo: Cleveland.com) The Plain Dealer newspaper reported earlier this […]

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