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BRIDGE COLLAPSE * USA - How much does it cost when a bridge goes down?
If you've had to take a detour because of the I-35W bridge collapse, chances are you've been burning extra gas -- and timeSt. Paul, Minn,USA - Minnesota Public Radio, by Annie Baxter -August 23, 2007: -- Minnesota transportation officials wanted to provide a quick analysis of the costs of navigating around the fallen bridge. They focused on two primary detours -- one is a route around the bridge on Interstates 694 and 94, and the other involves Highway 280... MnDOT's director of investment analysis, Ed Idzorek and his colleagues wanted to get a quick snapshot of how much extra time and extra miles drivers would rack up because of those two official detours. So they looked at the extra mileage and figured out its worth... They also computed the extra time -- typically an additional five to 10 minutes of driving on any given leg. MnDOT values that time at $13 per hour for the average driver. For truckers, it's $21 per hour... Part of the difference stems from how each party values an hour of travel. The Minnesota Trucking Association sets it at $75 an hour -- $54 per hour higher than MnDOT's estimate, which comes from federal computations... Both estimates put the cost of the bridge collapse at millions of dollars a week. But in the grand scheme of things, that's barely a drop in the state's $245 billion economy... (MPR Photo, by Tim Post - The exit to Highway 280 off Interstate 94. Traffic on those roads has increased since the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis)
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