Damaged Bridge Halts 1,000 Barges Carrying Agricultural Exports
In another sign of America’s aging and vulnerable infrastructure, last Thursday a crack in a bridge over the Mississippi river halted hundreds of cargo ships along the nation’s most significant route for agricultural exports, not to mention that the bridge was shut down to auto traffic causing huge backups on I-40 in Tennessee.
Why This Matters: First the Colonial pipeline and now this — our nation’s infrastructure is in need of bolstering.
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