Why is our infrastructure falling apart? Where’s all the money? At what point will Americans stand up and DEMAND we get out of Iraq, and stop spending such a gross amount of taxpayer dollars to build the military industrial complex?

U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters notified state transportation departments Thursday to immediately inspect all bridges of the same design as the one that collapsed Wednesday in Minnesota.

Brian Turmail, spokesman for the Transportation Department, said there are about 750 bridges across the country that have similiar steel deck truss designs.

Turmail said the meaure is being taken “out of extreme caution.”

Two reports published since 2001 have pointed to structural problems with the Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed Wednesday into the Mississippi River, but both reports determined the bridge was safe despite deficiencies.

“The bridge’s deck truss system has not experienced fatigue cracking, but it has many poor fatigue details on the main truss and the floor truss system,” said a report conducted for the Minnesota Department of Transportation in 2001.

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