The second wave of recovery

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Stable all seen even growth, reeling only Volgograd bridge. (c) <! - ~ 7 ~ ->

Volgograd bridge though reeling, but worth it. And, for example, in America, bridges collapse, which, however, does not prevent you and other lovers of Hollywood tales unconditionally believe in its political and economic "power".


In the United States struck a bridge across the Mississippi River

In the U.S. city of Minneapolis during the evening rush hour hit the central span of eight-lane road bridge, reports the AP.
The collapse in the water were a few cars, trucks and school buses. The bridge is burning truck, reports BBC News.

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to the scene have been sent by the representatives of emergency services of the city, the bridge suitable rescue boat and police.

According to eyewitnesses, dozens of people injured. Many people are locked in the span of the bridge, which were dilapidated. At least three people were killed.

It is already known that the bridge was under construction, in connection with which the movement on it was only one lane in each direction.

That construction work until called the most probable cause of the collapse.

http://lenta.ru/news/2007/08/02/mississippi/

More than 73 thousand U.S. bridges have defects in design

About 73,700 bridges in the U.S. (it is 12 percent of the nearly six hundred thousand on all bridges in the country) have design defects, according to the Associated Press, citing data from the American Society of Civil Engineers (American Society of Civil Engineers), which emerged after the collapse of the 150 meter bridge across the Mississippi in Minneapolis.
According to the organization, among the structurally deficient bridges, 816 were built in the 1990's and 3871 has already run for more than a hundred years. For their full recovery, according to Society of Engineers, will take 20 years and 188 billion dollars.

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According to the American Union, road users, which protects the rights of motorists, Greg Cohen (Gregory Cohen), in order to maintain the infrastructure of bridges to usable condition, it is necessary to allocate 75 billion dollars a year, but the government gives only 60 billion.

However, according to the Federal Road Agency, for the repair of bridges need to allocate an additional $ 55 billion. On the eve of the governors of American states tasked the Technical Services to investigate all the bridges, with particular emphasis on those that were built on similar projects, as in Minneapolis.

Recall, as a result of the collapse of the bridge across the Mississippi River, according to preliminary data, three people died. Injured about 60 people fell into the water for more than 50 cars. Preliminary cause of the collapse is called repairs, which took place on the bridge.

http://lenta.ru/news/2007/08/03/inspections/

The collapse of the bridge in the U.S.

December 15, 1967 in the United States attacked the so-called "Silver Bridge". The accident happened at rush hour, when the bridge was loaded a large number of cars. The collapse killed 46 people.

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Study of the crash, indicated the cause of the destruction of the bridge. In fact, the bridge carried a higher burden as a consequence of traffic congestion than those that were originally designed for him.

The new bridge, which replaced the "Silver Bridge", named the Silver Memorial Bridge ".

http://www.mossty.ru/crushing_silverusa.php