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Deteriorating bridges hasten need to spend infrastructure funds now

Transportation experts say the time is now for Congress and the Biden administration to release federal infrastructure funds to improve those unsafe bridges across the nation. Even the well-publicized collapse of the Forbes Avenue Bridge over Fern Hollow Creek in Pittsburgh on Jan. 28—while President Joe Biden was visiting the Steel City– has not hastened release of over $1 trillion in new infrastructure funding.

source https://www.supplychain247.com/article/deteriorating_bridges_hasten_need_to_spend_infrastructure_funds_now

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