Iowa infrastructure ranks 9th worst in the country

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Sigh

Structurally deficient bridges and poor roads have landed Iowa in the No. 9 spot on a new ranking of the nation's worst infrastructure.

Iowa drivers cross structurally deficient bridges more than 1.3 million times each day, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.

Iowa is 11th in the nation for roads in poor condition, the FHA reports, despite spending $684 per driver on state highways annually, data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows. Iowa's spending is the 12th highest in the nation.

Finally, the infrastructure rankings show just 2.6 percent of Iowa's dams are considered "high hazard," the second-lowest rate in the nation. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers classifies dams as "high hazard" when "loss of human life is likely if the dam fails."

I'm sure the orange fornicate and his enablers in Congress will get right on that too.

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1. Last year we drove from FL to WA to AZ to FL

We crossed probably 25 states. The one thing I can say for sure is that the worst rest areas were in Illinois.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Bitch to Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley......

They are the US Senators for Iowa. They should have to answer as to why Iowa is so bad. Their Republican Congress critters as well.

[progressoid]

3. Maybe some more tax giveaways to corporations would help.

[marble falls]

4. Iowa used to do one neat thing - they'd take all the turned in paint from drives and used ...

it to paint the highway bridges.