[Porsche-O-Phile]

Wow - just nuts.

My old office had an entire division dedicated to transportation (among other things, they were on the approved designers list for Illinois DOT, not sure about Minnesota, but we had an office there, so maybe...) Anyway the guy who used to sit next to me was a transfer from Chicago - civil engineer. His role back there used to be bridge inspection as well as some roadway design, but he used to tell me horror stories about some of the stuff he'd find on bridge inspections. Apparently the freeze-thaw cycles in the Midwest are very hard on stuff and as usual, the high-$$$ maintenance costs are a political football (most politicians try to push it off onto the next administration or whatever).

Yet another shining example of misappropriation of tax dollars - untold billions to rebuild I-Wreck while our own infrastructure crumbles under us. Very nice.