That prompted Transportation Secretary Mary Peters to advise states to carefully consider any additional stress placed on bridges during construction projects.
However, if Congress passes the transportation pieces of the American Jobs Act, state departments of transportation across the country can finally begin long-deferred repairs on many of these aging bridges and put construction workers back on the job.
Last month, Republicans in the Senate blocked a jobs bill that would have meant hundreds of thousands of private sector construction jobs repairing bridges like this one.
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Long carbon steel refers to tubular steel and steel rods, which are used almost completely for the construction of buildings and bridges.
There are still plenty of hard-hat-only areas where construction workers are erecting bridges between buildings, turning paved areas into grassy outdoor gathering places and otherwise sprucing up and modernizing the facilities.
Alice's Crystal Bridges art museum in Bentonville under construction.
Second, it puts more people back to work, including up to 280, 000 teachers laid off by state-budget cuts, first responders and veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and construction workers repairing crumbling bridges, roads and more than 35, 000 public schools, with projects chosen by need and impact, not earmarks and politics.
Second, the American Jobs Act of 2011 puts more people back to work, including teachers laid off by State budget cuts, first responders and veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and construction workers repairing crumbling bridges, roads and more than 35, 000 schools, with projects chosen by need and impact, not earmarks and politics.
Instead, much of it has gone into construction projects such as building bridges, with little thought of the likely returns.
But if we were buying so much military hardware, how could we build so many dams and bridges--103 with another 23 under construction.
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Obama also called on spending to put construction workers to work building roads, bridges and schools.
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Are they against hiring construction workers to rebuild our roads and bridges and schools?
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Right now, there are millions of laid-off construction workers who could be repairing our bridges and roads and modernizing our schools.
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Over the last 20 months, bulldozers and backhoes have been whirring in communities across the country, as construction crews from local companies repair roads and bridges, railways and ports.
Mr Edwards, who is on the games organising committee, said one of the bridges at the Olympic park was being built by Lagan Construction from Northern Ireland and displayed a London Olympics bag made by Ulster Weavers.
Let's put construction workers back to work rebuilding roads and bridges and schools all across North Carolina and all across the country. (Applause.) And lets put veterans back on the job. (Applause.) All right, so those are two choices.
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Let's create a Veterans Jobs Corps that can hire police officers and firefighters in communities that need them. (Applause.) Let's get a whole bunch of construction workers to rebuild our roads and our bridges, our ports and our airports. (Applause.) Let's rebuild our schools.
This jobs bill puts construction workers back to work rebuilding our roads and bridges and modernizing our schools.
They also enjoy a continuing monopoly over construction and civil engineering projects, from dams to bridges, and highways to metropolitan underground light railways.
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The President will deliver a statement on the economy, calling on Congress to pass the bipartisan, paid-for ideas that the President proposed last year to put construction workers back to work upgrading our roads and bridges, teachers back in the classroom educating our kids and police and firefighters back on the job keeping our communities safe.
Home construction might be flagging, but industrial construction--office buildings, schools, airports, bridges--is poised for growth.
And finally, this jobs bill will maintain crucial investments in our roads and our bridges as we head into the spring and summer months, when construction jobs are picking up.
I've been pretty vocal about how important it is to put these transportation investments into action and get hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads, bridges, airports, and transit systems.
They said no to putting hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job repairing our roads and our bridges and our schools and our transit systems.
Congress should have passed a bill a long time ago to put thousands of construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our runways.
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And our Rebuild America Partnership will attract private investment to put construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads, our bridges and our schools, in turn attracting even more new business to communities across the country.
The LDP clings to public-spending packages partly because it has strong political ties to construction interests, which are the chief beneficiaries of fresh investment in bridges, civic centers and landfills.
Yet legions of skilled construction workers remain unemployed while we drive our cars over pothole-laden roads and creaky bridges.
Pass this jobs bill, and hundreds of thousands of unemployed construction workers will get back on the job rebuilding our schools, rebuilding our roads, rebuilding our bridges, rebuilding our ports, rebuilding our airports.
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