This meant 18 road bridges - including the Hangar Lane gyratory- would have to have been knocked down.
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About 25 percent of all 603, 245 U.S. public road bridges are classified as deficient, according to a report announced this month by the Federal Highway Administration.
The planning application, submitted to Wiltshire Council, also includes a pedestrian and off-road cycle route, locks, pedestrian and road bridges, a new weir on the River Avon and a hydro-electric turbine.
Platforms have not been extended at Kentish Town because of road bridges at each end which cannot be moved, or at Cricklewood and Hendon because of "insufficient demand" to warrant running longer trains.
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Most of the road's bridges were built in the early 20th century.
During the maintenance three bridges carrying the inner ring road will be refurbished, new lighting will be installed and 600m (1, 968ft) of concrete barriers will be replaced.
The cockerel was found during excavation work at the former Bridges Garage site on Tetbury Road in Cirencester - once the second largest town in Roman Britain.
The conflict caused extensive damage to the country's infrastructure leaving 15, 000 houses and apartments leveled, 78 bridges and 630 km of road destroyed and an economy in tatters.
Russian emergency workers are distributing food and medicine by helicopter to areas where there is no road access, because bridges have been swept away.
But analysts think they may only be scratching the surface, given the enormous business opportunities associated with road improvements, new bridges and modern buildings around the world, particularly in Asia.
Kewell is joined by Elland Road team-mates Michael Bridges and Lee Bowyer.
As the bridges are part of the motorway and trunk road network, this would be the responsibility of the Welsh government.
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With sections of sand, solid rock and even worn-down bridges that drivers must inspect before crossing, the 200km road takes nearly 24 hours to drive.
It was the worst road accident in New Mexico's history, and it led to road improvements and a new federal safety standard for bridges.
From here, it is a dusty 250km drive southwest to Porto Jofre along the Transpantaneira, a raised road of packed orange dirt and 120 rickety wooden bridges that runs 147km deep into the Pantanal.
But it was along the road to nowhere that we came across the real joke: the 71 bridges that Myanmar neglected to build.
Perhaps it should have been staffed by Latinos, who cannot see a Great Divide at all: only bridges to be crossed, chances to be seized, another day's march along the road to completing the world's greatest multicultural experiment.
The sheer quantity of water gushing under bridges meant the otters could not swim against the rapid current, so they tried to cross the road instead and often got hit by cars.
At Galore, a four-year construction project that included an 84-mile road across the wilderness, through a 2.5-mile mountain tunnel and over at least ten bridges.
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