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One in Ten US Bridges Need "Urgent" Repairs

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Mark Melin
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More than 63,000 US bridges, one in ten nationally, is in need of urgent repair, said a study released by the American Road and Transportation Association, citing government data.

One in Ten US Bridges Need "Urgent" Repairs

The US Transportation Department routinely inspects then rates bridges on a scale of one to ten, with a score of four or below considered structurally deficient. These dangerous bridges are traveled over by 250 million trucks, school buses, passenger cars each day.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.