John McCain said Congress shares blame for problems with the nation's bridges and roads.
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And, in California, nearly all of the state's bridges have been retrofitted for seismic resistance.
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Many bus services are already back on the roads, and most of the city's bridges have reopened.
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Trams, buses and ferries were also resuming service, while most of New York's bridges have been re-opened.
According to the 2008 American Society of Civil Engineers infrastructure report, 57% of Rhode Island's bridges are structurally deficient.
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President Bush on Thursday urged caution on a proposal to raise the federal gasoline tax to repair the nation's bridges.
Most of the road's bridges were built in the early 20th century.
The human shields guarding Belgrade's bridges looked well organised.
Meanwhile, traffic on the bridge has moved more smoothly since E-ZPass-equipped drivers have been able to pass through the tolls without stopping, Mr. Redding said during a meeting of the MTA's Bridges and Tunnels Committee.
Federal Highway Administration data from 2006 shows that 24.5 percent of the nation's bridges longer than 20 feet were categorized as "structurally deficient" or "functionally obsolete" (data from Utah and New Mexico was from 2005).
But, he noted, out of 13, 000 state and local bridges in Minnesota that are 20 feet and more in span, 1, 160 of them -- 8 percent of the state's bridges -- are considered structurally deficient.
In its most recent report card on the nation's infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the nation's bridges a grade of "C" and said that in 2003 27.1 percent of them were deficient.
"We're trying and hoping to find a way to convert more of our customers that drive single-occupant cars to move over to the bus side, " said James Ferrara, president of the MTA's Bridges and Tunnel division, in a phone interview.
By levying fines, the agency was able to recoup virtually all of the toll revenue lost to drivers who simply drove through the E-ZPass lanes without paying, said Bob Redding, senior director of new tolling initiatives for the MTA's Bridges and Tunnels Agency.
Her work now hangs in museums around the world, including Ms. Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.
The 2005 study by Kumalasari Wardhana and Fabian Hadipriono of Ohio State University looked at 503 U.S. bridges that had failed between 1989 and 2000.
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Most of the nation's highways and bridges were built in the 1950s and '60s.
The September 2005 release accompanies the world tour of the same name, and is the long awaited follow-up to 1997's studio album Bridges to Babylon.
The president-elect said over the weekend that he supports an economic stimulus plan that includes an overhaul of the nation's roads and bridges.
President-elect Barack Obama said over the weekend that he supports an economic stimulus plan that includes an overhaul of the nation's roads and bridges.
Presumably Elton John, the Old Vic's chairman, bridges these troubled waters.
Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the agency was deploying additional staff and is assembling snow-fighting equipment for area's airports, bridges and tunnels, and the PATH train system.
"Just as is the case for our nation's roads and bridges, we must continue to invest in improvements to cell towers and transmission equipment, in order to ensure ubiquitous, high-speed Internet for all Americans, " Genachowski said in an official statement.
In Arizona, however, that's 5 percent of its total bridges, while in Rhode Island, it's more than half.
Mr. Kandel's attempts to find bridges between neuroscience and individual artists' oeuvres become increasingly desperate.
"I'd rather take that money and fix Wisconsin's crumbling roads and bridges, " Mr. Walker says in the ad.
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.
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