"260 million people a day cross bridges in the USA that are structurally deficient"

USA Today has the details of a new report from Transportation for America.  260 million people a day going over bridges that could be dangerous?  Wow.  

"The structurally deficient bridges are 65 years old on average, and the Federal Highway Administration estimates that repairing them would cost $76 billion."

USA Today's Larry Copeland adds: 

"The report comes less than a month after the May 23 collapse of a span of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state. Part of the bridge collapsed when it was struck by a truck with an oversize load. That bridge, built in 1955, was not structurally deficient."

That's a point worth dwelling on: The bridge that collapsed last month in Washington State was not in this "structurally deficient" category. 

One might think that these data would be a spur to action.