Hope You Like Swimming

While Congress stalled, the state of American infrastructure grew dire.

Illustration by Albert Tercero.

Americans take 178 million trips across structurally deficient bridges each day. At the current rate, it will take 50 years to repair all of these bridges. But focus on repairs to the most deficient bridges comes at the expense of preventative bridge maintenance — and in 2019, the number of bridges in fair condition surpassed the number […]

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