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[quote user="joe-daddy"] I can think of a good solution to the bridge problems.  Since 18 wheeler trucks provide the single largest risk factor to any bridge, with their up to 80,000 lbs stressing the poop covered welds, we could, just ship by. . . train?  What da ya think?[/quote]What makes you think that the stuff riding in a truck didn't also ride on a train?  Of course, to shift most truck stuff to train, we'd need to build about a million more miles of track to allow trains access to destinations that are currently only accessable by truck.  Lot's of rails laid down city streets so that boxcar can be unloaded right at the retail facility!And of course, to make up for slow rail service, the long haul railroads would all have to go HSR just to compensate for the time penalty of aggregation/disaggregation of consists.Now, I'm certainly not opposed to saturating the US countryside with a spaghetti-like network of tracks, but...........wouldn't it be cheaper just to fix the highway bridges?[quote]  Or we could adjust the taxes on these trucks to make sure they pay sufficient revenue to cover the all the risks that the public incurs from their use of the public highways. [/quote]Well, we'd have to adjust the truck taxes down.  Trucks pay more than their fair share.  The problem is that so much fuel tax revenue is diverted to pork boondoggles (aka the Big Dig), mass transit (here's an idea - LETS MAKE TRANSIT USERS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!), neighborhood sewer projects, that sort of thing.  How about we just use fuel tax revenues for our intercity roads, and let other taxes pay for that other stuff?
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