Little progress since bridge collapse 
by The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS -- One year after the horrific, rush-hour collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, the critical repairs to problematic bridges promised immediately by politicians have for the most part not happened. 

An Associated Press review of data for the 20 most heavily-traveled but structurally deficient bridges in each state shows just more than 10 percent of the them had their structural defects fixed. 

The most common approach has been to simply plan for repairs rather than fix problems now. 

Nearly two-thirds of the busiest problem bridges in each state have had no work beyond regular maintenance. Those spans carry nearly 40 million vehicles a day. 

The worst states are Indiana, Oklahoma, New Hampshire and South Carolina, where work was conducted on only one of each state's 20 most heavily traveled structurally deficient bridges.