Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Not True: Obama Suggests Minnesota Bridge Collapse Was Caused By Infrastructure Spending Cuts

sayanythingblog  "Liberals have long used the tragic 2007 collapse of a major bridge in Minneapolis to bolster talking points about what they characterize as a lack of funding for infrastructure. The problem is that the bridge didn’t collapse for want of maintenance.
"It collapse[d] because of a design flaw."

Chicago Tribune











CNS News: Obama Falsely Blames Bridge Collapse on Insufficient Federal Spending "Instead, the NTSB determined that the bridge collapsed partly because federal transportation inspectors did not properly inspect the design and did not give “adequate attention” to the parts of the bridge that caused the failure."
Did Design Flaws Doom the Minneapolis Bridge?  From the Engineering Ethics Blog September 01, 2008.

 Investigators Find Design Flaw to Blame for Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

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