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Thing. we are wasting money and areas that we shouldn't. the second is that inefficiency. we are wasting so much on silly regulations. the third is a lack of resources. it doesn't mean we should raise taxes, maybe a little less studying whether trim can float in boiling water or not and actually use those dollars to bus schoolchildren across bridges safely. >> jenna: a lot of us can't avoid these bridges. when you drive, are you thinking about this all the time? >> i think about it all the time and one of the things i would love to have us do. elected officials are quick -- let's put a sign up...

Ribbon cuttings than the kinds of repair projects like this. >> the american society of civil engineers gave a c plus to the 600,000 bridges in the u.s., 11% of them considered structurally deficient. ho worried should americans be when they drive across bridges? >> well, the worry is not so much that they'll collapse like this with a lot of frequency but the problem is the system is aging and it's aging pretty rapidly. the typical bridge out there was designed to last 50 years and the average age is 44. if you look at the bridges structurally deficient the one in ten bridges rated as structur...