MSNBC.com’s nifty bridge inspection tracker
Cory Bergman January 30th, 2008
Investigative reporter Bill Dedman and the rest of the MSNBC.com team posted an original story today that discovered that more than 17,000 bridges in the U.S. went more than two years between safety inspections. MSNBC.com acquired inspection data for 100,000 bridges through a FOIA request, and then mashed the data with Microsoft Virtual Earth, so you can see the condition and inspection schedule for bridges along your route. Cool.
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1. Don Day | January 30th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Awesome - and very cool.
My only wish is that I could see all the bridges in my area, searching by route to check everything out gets tedious.
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