Brooklyn Bridge Placed On ‘Must Fix’ List
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The Brooklyn Bridge, the oldest suspension bridge still being used in America, made Popular Mechanics’s “10 Pieces of U.S. Infrastructure We Must Fix Now” list. According to Popular Mechanics, officials don’t fear a collapse of the Brooklyn Bridge but they write that some of the “approaches to the structure have been marred by rusting steel and deteriorating road decks for many years.”
Repairs aren’t due to start until 2010. The report was linked to by Curbed, a New York City real estate Web log. The other nine pieces of infrastructure are Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and the Circle Interchange; the Industrial Canal Lock in New Orleans; Atlanta’s water system; the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle; the Herbert Hoover Dike at Lake Okeechobee in South Florida; Dover Bridge in Idaho; the Wolf Creek Dam in Kentucky, and the Sacramento River levees in California.
