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Infrastructure: the foundation for prosperity.
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June 22, 2008
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On Aug. 1, 2007, an eight-lane, steel truss bridge packed with rush hour traffic collapsed into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. This catastrophic failure of an interstate highway in the heart of a major U.S. city killed 13 people, injured 145, and prompted renewed focus on the condition of the nation's infrastructure.
While media coverage of the Minneapolis bridge failure has receded, the need to rebuild and repair bridges, roads, and other facilities essential to the nation's economy and way of life becomes more pressing with the passage of time. This issue of EconSouth examines physical infrastructure in the Southeast, in the United States, and around the world. To ...
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