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摘要

Among engineers and lawmakers alike, questions emerged as to whether other pieces of America's infrastructure would soon fail, whether it had the funding and other resources it deserved and, more directly, whether the more than 600,000 highway bridges in use across the nation were safe. Immediately, states assessed the reliability of their own bridges-chiefly, steel-deck truss highway bridges like the 1-3 5W Bridge-and a picture began to emerge that surprised many. Bridges across the country were-and are-safer than previously thought.