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This well-researched book on the US's failure to maintain its bridges and highways straddles political advocacy and scholarly work. . . . The chapters on the history of highway funding in the US, public-private partnerships, and the causes of systemic failures to maintain what has been built are excellent. . . . [This is] an excellent book for students and professionals, which one hopes will heighten the sense of urgency to increase funding for highway and bridge maintenance. There is no comparable book. The index and 37 pages of endnotes are excellent. Highly recommended. --Choice

Choice Seattle Times This well-researched book on the US's failure to maintain its bridges and highways straddles political advocacy and scholarly work. . . . The chapters on the history of highway funding in the US, public-private partnerships, and the causes of systemic failures to maintain what has been built are excellent. . . . [This is] an excellent book for students and professionals, which one hopes will heighten the sense of urgency to increase funding for highway and bridge maintenance. There is no comparable book. The index and 37 pages of endnotes are excellent. Highly recommended. -- Choice The deadly collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis awakened Americans to the perils of our aging infrastructure . . . In this painstaking analysis of both the Minneapolis tragedy and other structural failures, [LePatner] reveals that government failures at every level have resulted in our reliance on roads and bridges that were never designed to sustain the volume of traffic we now generate . . . Detailed and determined, this is a call to arms ignored at our own peril. --Colleen Mondor BookList This book offers professional and armchair engineers a wealth of history to place future road failures in perspective. -- Seattle Times This book offers professional and armchair engineers a wealth of history to place future road failures in perspective. Seattle Times The deadly collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis awakened Americans to the perils of our aging infrastructure . . . In this painstaking analysis of both the Minneapolis tragedy and other structural failures, [LePatner] reveals that government failures at every level have resulted in our reliance on roads and bridges that were never designed to sustain the volume of traffic we now generate . . . Detailed and determined, this is a call to arms ignored at our own peril. Colleen Mondor, BookList This well-researched book on the US s failure to maintain its bridges and highways straddles political advocacy and scholarly work. . . . The chapters on the history of highway funding in the US, public-private partnerships, and the causes of systemic failures to maintain what has been built are excellent. . . . [This is] an excellent book for students and professionals, which one hopes will heighten the sense of urgency to increase funding for highway and bridge maintenance. There is no comparable book. The index and 37 pages of endnotes are excellent. Highly recommended. Choice

Choice Seattle Times The deadly collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis awakened Americans to the perils of our aging infrastructure . . . In this painstaking analysis of both the Minneapolis tragedy and other structural failures, [LePatner] reveals that government failures at every level have resulted in our reliance on roads and bridges that were never designed to sustain the volume of traffic we now generate . . . Detailed and determined, this is a call to arms ignored at our own peril. --Colleen Mondor, BookList This book offers professional and armchair engineers a wealth of history to place future road failures in perspective. --Seattle Times This well-researched book on the US's failure to maintain its bridges and highways straddles political advocacy and scholarly work. . . . The chapters on the history of highway funding in the US, public-private partnerships, and the causes of systemic failures to maintain what has been built are excellent. . . . [This is] an excellent book for students and professionals, which one hopes will heighten the sense of urgency to increase funding for highway and bridge maintenance. There is no comparable book. The index and 37 pages of endnotes are excellent. Highly recommended. --Choice -The deadly collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis awakened Americans to the perils of our aging infrastructure . . . In this painstaking analysis of both the Minneapolis tragedy and other structural failures, [LePatner] reveals that government failures at every level have resulted in our reliance on roads and bridges that were never designed to sustain the volume of traffic we now generate . . . Detailed and determined, this is a call to arms ignored at our own peril.- --Colleen Mondor, BookList -This book offers professional and armchair engineers a wealth of history to place future road failures in perspective.---Seattle Times -This well-researched book on the US's failure to maintain its bridges and highways straddles political advocacy and scholarly work. . . . The chapters on the history of highway funding in the US, public-private partnerships, and the causes of systemic failures to maintain what has been built are excellent. . . . [This is] an excellent book for students and professionals, which one hopes will heighten the sense of urgency to increase funding for highway and bridge maintenance. There is no comparable book. The index and 37 pages of endnotes are excellent. Highly recommended.---Choice The deadly collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis awakened Americans to the perils of our aging infrastructure . . . In this painstaking analysis of both the Minneapolis tragedy and other structural failures, [LePatner] reveals that government failures at every level have resulted in our reliance on roads and bridges that were never designed to sustain the volume of traffic we now generate . . . Detailed and determined, this is a call to arms ignored at our own peril. Colleen Mondor, BookList This book offers professional and armchair engineers a wealth of history to place future road failures in perspective. Seattle Times This well-researched book on the US s failure to maintain its bridges and highways straddles political advocacy and scholarly work. . . . The chapters on the history of highway funding in the US, public-private partnerships, and the causes of systemic failures to maintain what has been built are excellent. . . . [This is] an excellent book for students and professionals, which one hopes will heighten the sense of urgency to increase funding for highway and bridge maintenance. There is no comparable book. The index and 37 pages of endnotes are excellent. Highly recommended. Choice

Choice Seattle Times This well-researched book on the US's failure to maintain its bridges and highways straddles political advocacy and scholarly work. . . . The chapters on the history of highway funding in the US, public-private partnerships, and the causes of systemic failures to maintain what has been built are excellent. . . . [This is] an excellent book for students and professionals, which one hopes will heighten the sense of urgency to increase funding for highway and bridge maintenance. There is no comparable book. The index and 37 pages of endnotes are excellent. Highly recommended. -- Choice This book offers professional and armchair engineers a wealth of history to place future road failures in perspective. -- Seattle Times The deadly collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis awakened Americans to the perils of our aging infrastructure . . . In this painstaking analysis of both the Minneapolis tragedy and other structural failures, [LePatner] reveals that government failures at every level have resulted in our reliance on roads and bridges that were never designed to sustain the volume of traffic we now generate . . . Detailed and determined, this is a call to arms ignored at our own peril. --Colleen Mondor BookList The deadly collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis awakened Americans to the perils of our aging infrastructure . . . In this painstaking analysis of both the Minneapolis tragedy and other structural failures, [LePatner] reveals that government failures at every level have resulted in our reliance on roads and bridges that were never designed to sustain the volume of traffic we now generate . . . Detailed and determined, this is a call to arms ignored at our own peril. Colleen Mondor, BookList This book offers professional and armchair engineers a wealth of history to place future road failures in perspective. Seattle Times This well-researched book on the US s failure to maintain its bridges and highways straddles political advocacy and scholarly work. . . . The chapters on the history of highway funding in the US, public-private partnerships, and the causes of systemic failures to maintain what has been built are excellent. . . . [This is] an excellent book for students and professionals, which one hopes will heighten the sense of urgency to increase funding for highway and bridge maintenance. There is no comparable book. The index and 37 pages of endnotes are excellent. Highly recommended. Choice

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BARRY B. LePATNER is the founder of LePatner & Associates LLP, which serves as legal and business advisor to corporations, institutions, and developers. He is the author of Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry.

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