Bridges....

Watching the bridge in Minnesota on
the news, yesterday and today, surely has to make
a lot of us think. This bridge has been on
the docket for repairs since 2005. Why hasn't
it been fixed? We all, in all states, are bring
charge for taxes on our gas... for roads and
bridges. Yet, here we sit with only 1% of them
being done.

And it seems the bridges are the last ones
being done. What is that? Last I knew roads
didn't fall down into rivers and lakes. They
should be top priority. In our own little town
they are finally getting around to fixing our
bridge.

And the bridge is only 40 years old. I say
only because I am from the land of 100
year old bridges. In New England there
are a lot of bridges that are over 100 years
old and some are 200.

And how can they give a report of a bridge
being at risk and 2 years later nothing was
being done? It took a tragedy to get notice.

How many other bridges around the USA,
are time bomb waiting to happen? Heck, we
don't have to worry about terrorist, we do it
to ourselves by not acting on the reports.