Missourian
Diamond Member
- Thread starter
- #81
Read page ii, "Highway Deterioration", paragraph 2Paraphrased: Although a 5 axle truck at the current federal limit of 80,000 lbs. weighs only 20 times more than a car, it does 9,600 times more damage. Increasing truck weight causes an ever increasing rate of pavement damage."
GAO Study http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/109884.pdf
So, the bill that increases weight also provides funding to improve the roads over which the weight will be carried.
Next?
"In addition, it establishes a safe, efficient vehicle bridge infrastructure improvement program and apportions amounts from the Safe and Efficient Vehicle Trust Fund to states for eligible bridge replacement or rehabilitation projects."
You posted this. Not a word about roads.
Some money for bridges of which 1 in 9 is already substandard.
Despite billions of dollars in federal, state and local funds directed toward the maintenance of existing bridges, 69,223 bridges — 11.5 percent of total highway bridges in the U.S. — are classified as "structurally deficient," requiring significant maintenance, rehabilitation or replacement.
http://t4america.org/resources/bridges/
Last edited: