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Millions of Americans put their lives at risk every day by driving across the country’s crumbling bridges and overpasses, experts claimed.

According to an analysis of federal data, 220,000 of the nation’s 618,000 bridges need some sort of repair. Even worse, nearly 80,000 warrant replacement, and according to Barry LePatner, author of “Too Big to Flat America’s Infrastructure and the Way Forward,” nearly 5,000 are at “serious risk” of collapse! “For over 40 years, our nation, from it’s leadership position in Washington, has literally starved the states of funding of our ports, our infrastructure,” LePatner said.

He added the federal government had “failed to accurately represent the danger that bridges present to the traveling public.” In 2007, the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapsed-leaving 13 people dead and 145 injured-and reportedly had a “structurally deficient” rating at the time of it’s catastrophic failure.

“Usually, the bridges that are in poor condition have less than ten years if estimated remaining life,” warned Mark Nahra, president of Iowa County Engineers Association.

The plan, which still requires passage in the house of representatives, was hailed by President Joe Biden as a “historic investment in infrastructure.” But Biden’s $2 trillion plan =-which grew to $3.1 trillion after congressional wrangling-only called for the repair of 10,000 of the nation’s smaller bridges and ten economically significant ones!

That’s just a fraction of the nation’s 45,000 bridges found to be poor, or structurally deficient, condition by inspectors, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA).

It has been identified that heavily traveled U.S. bridges in need of repair in every state!