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28 Apr 2014, 12:56 pm

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http://m.washingtonpost.com/local/traff ... 2ad90da239

It was a bad pothole on an otherwise sound bridge, but the potential for bridge repairs to gum up the works was telling on a day when new federal data revealed that there are 63,000 U.S. bridges in need of more significant repair.

“These are bridges where drivers and first responders are crossing over 250 million times each and every day,” said Alison Premo Black, an economist with the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, the group that compiled the federal data.


As this points out, it is kind of a big deal, both in terms of cost and traffic delays.

But, the work's going to need to be done eventually. We might as well do it during a higher than average period of unemployment.

And the idea of the bow-shaped curve from economics may come into play, that initially the resources most appropriate to bridge repair are available.