The deadly 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in downtown Minneapolis was an awful tragedy. But the lost bridge has remained useful for advocates of transportation funding. For years, the ...

The partial collapse of the I-5 bridge in Washington state Thursday is already being cited by some as a perfect example of the "crumbling infrastructure" narrative that transportation advocates have ...

A new kind of bridge construction opens and unfolds like an umbrella, creators say. Structural engineers at the TU Wien, or Vienna University of Technology, have built a prototype bridge mechanism ...

"This will probably be a wake-up call for DOTs everywhere to look at the types of over-sized loads they're permitting and whether or not they have these kinds of bridges," said Paula Hammond, the ...

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