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Article: I-35W Bridge Collapse Shows Continued Risk From Lack of Redundancy in National Highway/Bridge Network, ARTBA Says
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- U.S. Newswire
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- July 31, 2008
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To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS
Contact: Jeff Solsby of the American Road & Transportation
Builders Association, +1-202-289-4434
Additional Attention Still Required for 6,000 Deficient Bridges
Nationwide, Each Serving as a Crucial Economic Link
MINNEAPOLIS, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Bridges can be
rebuilt and roadways repaired but lives touched by tragedy can never
be wholly repaired. Those were the words of Larry Russell, American
Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Vice President,
Development & National Field Operations.
Russell joined industry partners and local officials at a
Minneapolis, Minn. commemoration July 31 to mark the tragic August
1, 2007 I-35W bridge ...