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Show Sunday My Pit bull Continued from HtRAtD DAILY 31. 2008 of Transportation spokesman A dan Carrilio said Wednesday. The work in the city and on is spending $ million of its this fiscal year own money were on board with to rebuild bridges. Last year Continued from Al in nearby Parleys Canit spent double that the and them well before the bridges funding The collapse of the eight-lan- e amount fluctuates dependyon is being compressed into Interstate 35W bridge two months. Highway buildMinneapolis bridge collapse." ing on the need. Utah also into the Mississippi River on ers from around the country draws from federal funding Rukhsana Lindsey have been on hand to watch, for bridge work that is part of Aug. 1, 2007, killed 13 people director of research and bridge operations for UDOT and brought immediate calls and the National Geographic interstate highway improveChannel did some filming for for repairs to bridges across ments, according to Lindsey. the natioa a "World's Toughest Fixes" Bridges deemed structurally The failure to follow series that will premiere Sept. sembled offsite for skidding be out of there for good," Cardeficient have elements that 28, spokeswoman Julie Frazier into place. The replacement rilio said. "All of these bridges need monitoring and parts that through was not because of lack of effort, officials said. said. The Utah episode will air is about 80 percent complete, need to be scheduled for repair deteriorated at the same time sometime in November. Carrilio said. and need to be replaced at the or replacement. The designaSoaring construction costs, Utah highway officials say About 3 percent of Utah's tion does not necessarily mean same time." budget shortages, election-yea- r Utah's bridge problems apa bridge is unsafe, although politics, a backlog of they planned their bridge offen- bridges are rated structursive long before the Minneapoit is one of the factors used to ally deficient, but officials say bridge projects, competing pear to be less urgent than in lis collapse nearly a year ago. the designation doesn't mean determine when a bridge is at highway repairs and bureaumany other states. "The Minneapolis disaster The worst were Indiana, cracy often held bridge work risk, and which ones quality they're unsafe, just that they need more frequent attention to only incremental progress. for federal money. Oklahoma, New Hampshire got a lot of states aware of their own bridges," said Rukh-san- a and that the rate is low comIn Utah, dish soap and and South Carolina, where The nation's bridges depend blocks of African ironwood Lindsey, director of repared to other states. As some work was conducted on only significantly on the federal of those bridges get fixed or search and bridge operations one of each state's 20 most help move bridges. government. In 2004, $10.5 for the Utah Department of That simple trick has Utah billion was invested across the replaced, other aging bridges heavily traveled structurally fall into the structurally defideficient bridges. Generally, Transportation. moving rapidly to replace 20 country on bridge improvecient category, so the percent"But I would have to say of its oldest or worst highway interstate bridges in Utah are ments, according to the Fedthat Utah decision maknewer and built to higher stan- eral Highway Administration. age hardly ever changes. bridges this summer 11 on Utah's bridges are being ers were on board with our the same stretch of Interstate dards than other bridges in the Utah has one bridge similar in design to the cantilever 80 that drops from Parleys bridges and funding them well inspected as often as every six nation because it took longer months. Bridge replacements before that bridge collapse," for the interstate highway sys- bridge that collapsed in MinCanyon into Salt Lake City. at a pace tem to reach the West, which she said. are unfolding on The state is taking an neapolis. That bridge is in a The Associated Press comunusual and fast approach, that can only be described as thus got better bridge designs. remote corner of the state, in furious. It's causing major The West also has fewer Box Elder County, and gets building many bridges or their piled a list of Utah's worst only about 20 vehicles a day. major components offsite and bridges, all dating to the 1960s traffic bottlenecks and backwaterways that require or earlier, and found that most ups during rush hour, prompt- bridges. Most of the bridge then moving them into place Lindsey said an intensive inof them were being repaired with cranes or skids greased ing some irate motorists to problems involve potholes or spection after the Minneapolis collapse showed that the other surface irregularities, appeal for a more stretched-ou- t by soap. Officials say the skids or replaced, with much of the schedule. But highway not structural integrity, Utah made of African ironwood are work happening this sumbridge in Box Elder County officials said. mer and next. Other bridge builders decided to compress was in good condition. The super dense and heavy. Utah's budget for bridge "We believe it is the largtraffic pain and replacements are in design or all of the Minneapolis bridge, one of maintenance has been steadily the busiest in Minnesota, coest, most aggressive bridge bidding stages. On a stretch of be done with it at once. "We'd rather do it now, tear increasing to about $12 milcircling Salt Lake City, llapsed during a Wednesday replacement project in the it apart at the same time and lion a year. In addition, Utah another bridge is being as- country," Utah Department evening rush hour. Bridges Al dogs away from Denovellis by yelling to them, but soon became the new target of their hostility. The dogs surrounded and the pit bull once again bit the back of his legs. But McFarland was able to draw the dogs into a fenced area at his business, moving slowly while talking loudly to keep the dogs' attention. Once the dogs were inside the fenced area, McFarland got out and closed the gate behind him. "I understand that dogs play off human emotions, and I just tried to assume the role of the pack leader and not show any fear," McFarland said. "It was just a situation where I realized if I stayed in control of it, it would be OK." Denovellis suffered several bleeding wounds on the back of his legs, according to Orem police Lt. Doug Edwards. The dog's bite punctured McFar-land'- s skin, but he said the wound was not bleeding. The bite did not break through his heavy cotton work pants, he said. McFarland said the encounter was a little scary, but was actually kind of fun. g "It was a little bit but I wouldn't call it a frightening experience at all, because the dog didn't bite me that hard and he wasn't trying real hard to go for me. I might have been afraid a little bit, but it wasn't a frightening situation," he said. Animal control officers responded to the scene and took the dogs to the North Utah Valnerve-wrackin- AS "Utah decision-maker- s 1 loTo) ' DON'T MISS THE FIRST DAY OF OUR SALE! ley Animal Shelter in Lindon. A woman came to claim the dogs at the shelter, but left before citations could be issued, Edwards said. About an hour later, a man and woman came in to claim the Labradors, and they said the pit bull belonged to their niece, who had come in earlier, Edwards said. Edwards said the owner of the pit bull would be cited with dog at large, dog attacking a person, maintaining a vicious animal, no license and no rabies tags. Police issued similar SHOP THURSDAY 1 0AM-9P- M TONE THE t SIZZLING SAVINGS EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK 40 OFF 60 sportswear for misses, petites and Macy Woman. citations to the owners of the other two dogs, he said. 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