A Bridge Over Deadly Waters?
A Bridge Over Deadly Waters?
A bridge that thousands of Chicagoans and Northwest Indiana residents drive over daily has received a bridge structural rating of 2 percent!
The Associated Press reports that the I-290 / Congress Parkway bridge over the Chicago River rated the extremely low score of 2 out of 100.
The south bridge of Interstate 290 over the Chicago River, which carries 139,000 vehicles a day and has a sufficiency rating of 2. A sufficiency rating summarizes detailed inspection data for a bridge's deck, superstructure and substructure.Pretty scary stuff considering that the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis had a rating of 50 percent.
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