America's infrastructure gone for a toss, with the Minnesota breakdown

Here's the update....

• Minnesota Interstate 35W bridge breaks down (experts say, due to corrosion), costs 6 lives (counting...)
• Minnesota ranked #3 in the country for infrastructure
• Ranked #11 by CNBC for business in the Transportation industry
• Victims trapped in submerged cars
• Not able to use cellphones, as these stupid devices, like Tendulkar, don't serve in emergency situations. They couldn't handle the traffic when everyone reached their cellphones immediately and simply crashed! - Speaks of America's infrastructure again!
  
• Federal government orders all the states to inspect all their bridges IMMEDIATELY

Click here for a slideshow of images of the breakdown from CNBC.com

Victim driver says, "I don't believe I'm alive..." - Check out CNN.com for more coverage on that.

Some more stats that may be eye-openers for the Congressmen, who probably feel it's not a sex appeal to talk about transportation and infrastructure during their campaigns, nor are willing to sufficient spend money on it.

• 70,000+ (13%) U.S. bridges are structurally deficient
• 3,871 of these are over 100 years old
  
• $188B - $0.5 Trillion to bring them upto what they should be, and it will take a lifetime
• Bridge repair backlog is around $55 B
• Fed spends nearly $40B a year on highways and bridges

Alright, if the Minnesota bridges are ranked among the nation's best and this is what happens, I guess everytime now I go on a bridge or a highway, I can't stop my thoughts wander......