25 November 2014

Pittsburgh for the day


The BBC has a video by Colm O'Molloy about a record number of bridges:
The American city of Pittsburgh claims to have more bridges than any other place in the world, and don't try telling locals otherwise.
There are 446 of them, to be precise. The best known of those bridges span the two rivers, the Monongahela and Allegheny, which flow through Pennsylvania and meet in the old steel city to form the Ohio.
Maintaining and upgrading so many structures is an expensive and time-consuming business. The state department of transport says it invests a hundred and fifty million dollars a year on bridges alone, while a multi-billion-dollar federal highways bill will also help in 2015.
That flow of money is helping create new construction jobs in a city where the once-dominant steel industry has been in long-term decline.
Rico says he went to college there, and didn't know it had that many...

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