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Article: Bridges of Pima County: They're aging and damaged, 22 are structurally deficient, and they'll cost millions to fix.
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- AZ Daily Star
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- August 23, 2007
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Byline: Enric Volante
Aug. 23--Maricopa County has more people, more cars and twice the bridges. But for aging, damaged bridges, look to Pima County.
Inspectors in Pima County reported 22 structurally deficient bridges -- three times as many as in Maricopa County. Four span the Santa Cruz River and many are in outlying parts of the Tucson metro area, a federal database shows.
State and county transportation officials say none of the bridges is in imminent danger of collapse like the Minneapolis freeway bridge that tumbled motorists into a river on Aug. 1.
But Pima County's beat or insufficient bridges stand to cost tens of millions of ...