Bridge Collapse

Not the first time this has happened. This is a bridge that had been identified as "deficient" in 1990. There are some 40,000 other locations identified as "deficienct" in American infrastructure. Meanwhile our roadbuilding continues and it all is based on accomodation of more and more automobilles. America has no serious light rail service available with the exception of a few highly-populated regions. We will not convert overnight to a light rail service but we can begin. Minneapolis would be a good place to start. Not to replalce highways with light rail but to begin providing that alternative for our people. We don't have to begin there but it would be not only appropriate but also symbolic. Let's face it, most of America's problems are automobille-related. Without our dependence on middle-eastern oil, our endless-seeming communutes, our high accident toll, pollution, sprawl, congestion and so on.