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Aug 3, 2015

McCain: Senate transportation bill would provide long-term certainty

Few things are as essential to economic growth and development as our nation’s roads. In a state as expansive as Arizona, riders understand the importance of having sound infrastructure, especially when it fails, as it did with the recent bridge collapse on I-10 in California not far from the Arizona border that continues to impact travelers across our state and region.

Jul 28, 2015

Businesses hope I-10 closure is road-funding ‘wakeup call’ to Congress

Arizona Trucking Association President Tony Bradley says one good thing may have come out of the closure of a section of Interstate 10 this week – it could point up the need to fix the nation’s infrastructure.

The Ina Road bridge in Pima County was deemed structurally unsound and will be replaced. Transportation officials credited Arizona’s proactive approach to bridge maintenance for the relatively low number of unsound bridges in the state. (Cronkite News Service photo by Julia Tylor)
May 30, 2013

Arizona ranks high for soundness of its bridges – but so did Washington

Arizona tied for third-best in the nation for the structural soundness of its bridges in 2011, with just 3 percent of bridges deemed structurally deficient, compared to to 11.5 percent nationwide.

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