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$Cracked concrete exposes parts of reinforcement bars on the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge which spans the Anacostia River in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. The bridge, which carries more than 70,000 vehicles a day, was designed to last 50 years. Itâs now 13 years past its life expectancy. An Associated Press analysis of 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory showed that 65,605 were classified as "structurally deficient" and 20,808 as "fracture critical," making them higher risk bridges. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)$ News

AP IMPACT: Tough route for fixing aging bridges

JOAN LOWYMIKE BAKER · September 16, 2013 8:07 pm

The Brooklyn Bridge stretches in front of the Manhattan skyline in New York, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. The federal government says more than 2,000 New York state bridges are structurally deficient and badly need repairs. That list includes the Brooklyn Bridge, the Tappan Zee Bridge and the Kosciuszko Bridge.

10 Things: Making sense of nation’s bad bridges

JOAN LOWYMIKE BAKER · September 16, 2013 11:40 am

$Cracked concrete exposes parts of reinforcement bars on the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge which spans the Anacostia River in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. The bridge, which carries more than 70,000 vehicles a day, was designed to last 50 years. Itâs now 13 years past its life expectancy. An Associated Press analysis of 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory showed that 65,605 were classified as "structurally deficient" and 20,808 as "fracture critical," making them higher risk bridges. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)$ News

AP IMPACT: Many US bridges old, risky and rundown

JOAN LOWYMIKE BAKER · September 16, 2013 11:29 am

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