Magazine Lists America's Top 10 Places to Avoid

When Minneapolis' I-35 Bridge collapsed, we began to catch on to the fact that America's aging infrastructure -- bridges, roads, levees, ports, airports, etc. -- was beginning to crumble before our very eyes. Now, the May issue of Popular Mechanics features "Rebuilding America," reporting on what is needed to repair our nation's infrastructure, and providing a chilling list of America's Top 10 places to avoid.

Popular Mechanics' "The 10 Pieces of U.S. Infrastructure We Must Fix Now" takes the reader on a tour of well and not-so-well known places engineers consider really scary, like the Brooklyn Bridge, the quake-damaged Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, the Dover Bridge in Idaho and Atlanta's vanishing drinking water system.

What's the Government Doing About This? Not much, especially with a presidential election to worry about. Congress has responded to our aging infrastructure by considering, but certainly not yet passing, the National Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2007, a bill that does very little more than establish a "National Commission on Infrastructure" to study, rather than fix the problem.

"Not for the first time (and, unfortunately, not for the last), Congress responds to a tragedy by forming a Commission to study a problem that it has ignored..." writes U.S. Politics Guide Kathy Gill.

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