Bridges and roads crumble. Capitol Hill is in stasis. As Trump prepares to announce an infrastructure plan in his state of the union address,can no one agree on anything?She remembers first crossing the bridge as a girl in the 1950s. “My mother was disturbed to death because they had diminutive metal balustrades you could see accurate through and it looked like you could crash over the edge,” Maria Estevez says. “They were scary. My mum would close her eyes when we crossed the bridge.”Today the metal fencing has been replaced by concrete Jersey barriers but diminutive else has changed on the Governor Harry W Nice Memorial Bridge since it opened in 1940, or two years after President Franklin Roosevelt broke ground. Back then it was expected to carry 136000 vehicles a year from southern Maryland to Virginia,but by 1964 traffic had reached 3.2m vehicles; today it stands at 6.5m.
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Source: guardian.co.uk