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For Professional Engineers in Private Practice
Fed up with governments ignoring the fact that bridges across America are in a state of disrepair and susceptible to failure, a U.S. author and construction lawyer has launched an interactive website to let the public easily locate which are the dangerous bridges in their area.
Barry LePatner launched the www.SaveOurBridges.com site last August and recently revamped it making it searchable by city/state or zip code. He says he hopes it will not only educate the public but "help bring attention to an issue that is continuously ignored by the nation's policymakers."
LePatner says there are 7,980 bridges in the U.S. that were designed as fracture-critical, meaning that their design lacks support to hold up if a single component fails. This was the problem with the 1-35W Bridge in Minneapolis that collapsed in August 2007, he says.
"I, along with many other infrastructure leaders in the U.S. thought the 1-35W collapse would be a wake-up call to the nation's leaders. But it quickly became clear that the policymakers and government agencies in charge of infrastructure were content to sweep it under the rug and move on."
He says there is plenty of money for infrastructure investment, but it has often been diverted to ribbon-cutting ceremonies for politicians rather than for needed repairs.
LePatner is the co-author of Structural and Foundation Failures (McGraw-Hill, 1982) and his most recent book, Too Big to Fall.
Post script: On February 12 in his State of the union address, President Obama proposed a "Fix-It-First" program that would address "the nearly 70,000 structurally deficient bridges across the country."
To see the LePatner's site, click here.
Stan Smith
Bravo for Mr. LePatner! It is only through actions such as this that politicians and bureaucrats will be forced to take action. Money flows into opening high profile, "new" things instead of the boring and mundane critical maintenance. Until the powers are embarrased with their neglect, the infrastructure will continue to decay.
Posted February 13, 2013 12:14 PM
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Legendary for its secrecy compared to what? Certainly not libtard administrations.
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Hah. Politico. And the lede.... looks like it´s a good time to clean the keyboard.
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This is surprising only to those who projected their own faults onto Bush.
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He is everything Dem presidents are not.
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Bush presidency secretive?? let´s see, Iraq, 911, Afghanistan and the propensity for dems to run from an intelligence briefing to the nearest msm microphone. Why in the world would he be secretive? (even if that wasn´t just another dem fabrication?)
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Well Josh, had you not believed your side´s BS you wouldn´t be surprised.
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FTA: ~~A close observer of White House operations, Towson University political science professor Martha Kumar, said Bush likely views himself as having little to lose and something to gain by being open with his official files."He left the presidency very comfortable with his record. I think that'll carry through into the release of information from it," Kumar said. "I think he believes his actions were justified and that the records will demonstrate that."~~The jackals of the ´press´ do not believe that, and shall do everything in their power to sift through every word in order to do whatever damage they wish to inflict..(the exact opposite of the way they are handling the highly redacted Clinton records).
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The partisan spin in the first line, alone, is dizzifying. W´s admin had some confidentiality to it; but compared to the opaqueness of Bubba and Barry´s admins, W´s was practically transparent.Applying so much spin so early in this article would lower Politico´s credibility in my estimation, if not for the fact that their credibility was already so close to zero.
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Yea and Bush was also legendary for stealing elections, indiscriminately invading countries without congressional approval, going it alone, flying aircraft into buildings while cowering under a school child´s desk, being the puppet of Cheney´s oil buddies, lying about WMD´s...I´m sure I´m forgetting a great deal.
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For the left, the "secrecy" meme derived from from Dick Cheney meeting with Oil Co. People for which executive privilege was properly claimed when the left wing press asked details of the meetings. That was a nice play by GWB and the leftoids still hold a grudge. ....and yet we now have no idea (or does the MSM bother to ask) about the parade of miscreants that now waltz through the White House. Muslim Brotherhood, SEIU and Enviro-kooks of every stripe......Having said that, I view this as yet another thumb in the eye of the left by GWB who really did "restore honor and integrity to the White House".
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Wisely knows that the truth is better than the unfounded stuff the Dems toss around. Good for him!
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If you´ve ever had the misfortune to know someone who was a thief, you will remember that he can´t get through his first cup of coffee without telling you about how someone just stole all of his stuff. (Justifying his anticipated day´s activities)Leftists, being thieves of the first degree, see a move like this by GWB as a way of covering something up.Criminals are criminals and they act like criminals.Just listen to these lying dirt bags in the Spitehouse and what they say every damn day.How can it be possible that the revolution has not started yet???Our Founding Fathers explained to us, in great detail, all the hows and whys of tyrannical government and exactly what to do about it.
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So now that a few journalists have crawled out to say the Obama admin is unprecedented in its control of the media, Politico jumps in to label the Bush WH as legendary for its secrecy.What a coincidence.
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Josh has a lie in his first sentence. I can´t be bothered to read the rest.GWB´s Presidency was NOT legendary for its secrecy--unlike Obama; GWB just never tried to saturate the airwaves with his voice, or blitz every college and campaign cash stop with his boring speeches. Again, unlike Obama.Tell me just one item that GWB was "secretive" about, aside from National security items.I just love how the Lamestream Media just makes stuff up at will.
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#9, don´t forget, Bush also used lots of taxpayer´s money when he regularly spent his vacation at his OWN ranch.
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Well-said #12.
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WSAZ-TV sports director Keith Morehouse and longtime Marshall University professor and WMUL faculty manager Charles Bailey have been honored for their contributions to the state's broadcast journalism industry.
The two were each presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award
from the West Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters association at
the group's annual convention in Huntington tonight (Saturday).
After 13 years at WOWK-TV, Morehouse joined WSAZ in 1996 and
became the voice of the Thundering Herd. By doing so, he followed
in the footsteps of his father, Gene, who died in a 1970 plane
crash along with most of the Marshall football team.
The Marshall graduate is a two-time Emmy Award winner and was
recognized as sportscaster of the year by the broadcasters association in both 1999 and 2005.
Bailey, a native of Logan County, has come into contact with thousands of Marshall broadcasting students in his 22 years at his
alma mater. Under his tutelage, his students have won countless
awards and accolades.
In 2000, Bailey was honored by the broadcasters association with
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