tidal inlets or navigable streams and “the water was the first American highway”. When roads came to be con structed, it was natural that the necessary bridges should be simply tree trunks ...

Sixty-eight bridges across the US should be assessed to see if they are at risk of collapse if hit by a ship, transportation safety officials found, while urging the bridges’ owners to undertake ...

A group of residents from Minneapolis’ Kingfield neighborhood, fed up with President Donald Trump, are meeting on the 42nd ...

A top transportation official is warning authorities to assess what risk bridges face catastrophic collapse due to collision; ...

Over the last year, the NTSB identified 68 bridges built before 1991 that don't have a "current vulnerability assessment" and ...

The NTSB calls for vulnerability assessments on 68 bridges nationwide, including Texas' Rainbow Bridge, after a deadly ...

The recommendations come as part of an ongoing investigation of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore ...

The NTSB urges bridge owners to calculate the annual frequency of potential collapse using the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials methodology. The Memorial Bridge ...

The Mackinac Bridge is one of 68 bridges that a federal agency said should undergo a safety review after an investigation ...

The agency says its report “not suggest that the 68 bridges are certain to collapse” but that they need to be evaluated.

Homendy urged bridge owners nationwide to conduct risk assessments. 68 bridges around the country in 19 states have not had ...

Michigan's Mackinac Bridge is among 68 spans in the U.S. that should be evaluated for risk of collapse from a vessel ...