jmcquown wrote:
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> > It also may depend on how old the bridge was. If it was built 40
> > years ago there was a lot about stressed concrete that people did not
> > know about especially interactions with salt!.
> > Also if I remember correctly the US Federal Gov't funded construction
> > of the Interstates but not the maintaince so if the states were cash-
> > strapped then mantaince might sufferer. BTW was not that bridge
> > linking two states? Just ideal for a nice bureaucratic war over which
> > state pays the bills
> >
> > John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
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> No, it linked two *cities* in Minnesota divided by the Mississippi River.

If I am reading the map correctly, it connects two parts of the city of
Minneapolis, the part on the east side of the Mississippi and the part on
the west. It also connects Minnesota to Iowa, making it an interstate.




> Jill