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Show DAILY HERALD AS Monday, August 2b 2007 Cridgo Terminology Sufficiency rating Is essentially an overall rating of a bridges fitness for the duty that It performs based on four factors, one of which is its Structural Evaluation. A low sufficiency rating may be due to structural defects, narrow lanes, low vertical clearance or any of many possible issues. . Structurally deficient is a status used to describe a bridge that has one or more structural defects that require attention. This status does not indicate the severity of the defect but rather that a defect is present. , Rmctkmaffy obsolete is a status used to describe a bridge that is no longer by design functionally adequate for its task. A functionally obsolete bridge may be per- techy safe and structurally sound, but may be the source ; of traffic Jams or may not have a high enough clearance to allow an oversized vehicle. ' . in the area, the dty brought .. several companies together to pitch in and replace the 72Vear-ol- d bridge for about $290,000, said dty engineer Bruce Ward. Construction is expected to be complete soon. .' Thats what were supposed to do, is do a good job, Ward said. The state inspects each . bridge every two years and anything below 50" they -- : CHAM MLOERDady Herald watch a little more dosefe, said Eixenberger, whos been .; The bridge over the Provo River fewest Provo is under construction and should be completed by the middle of September. with the Utah Department of Transportation for 24 years, 15 ' ' Even of those in bridge design and ing to the database, the bridge ' is usually spent each year on bridges not under the has a 36 percent sufficiency maintenance and replacement maintenance. purview of the state and its ; of the states 2,800 bridges. dollars are being upgraded In all that time, he said, hes rating. But it was actually Continued from M Salems bridge at 750 E. 900 V unaware of any sort of collapse. repaired last year af a cost of . The state Legislature also al--. ' The states good bridge , South was worst locally on $3.2 million, as was the bridge , lotted $30 million in additional are being repaired, says state at the Uah Lake State Park (32 money this year for repairs or the Federal Highway Admin- ; safety record is also due in bridge operations engineer istration list with a 24 percent part because many of them are Dave Eixenberger. percent) and the Ironton Inter- replacements of five bridges, r including one on near Take Provo's Center Street change (40 percent). sufficiency rating. But by way relatively new; But the state's transforms-- , of recent home development . Interstate J5 bridge. Accord Eixenberger said $40 million Spanish Fork. . Red-woo- Bridges . . st . : . . . . ; tkm from bucolic to booming is ensuring that more and more deed to be built. The Legacy Highway through Davis County alone will have 38 bridges, Eixenberger said. Utah has a challenge of managing physical quality of its existing bridges, but were also managing growth at the same time. Utah County is going to. V. require plenty of road growth as populations in Saratoga Springs, Eagle Mountain and other cities continue to boom. d and Projects indude Road expansions, and cocmec- two major east-wetors just for starters. Theres no way of knowing exactly how many bridges wul be needed, said Geoff Dupaix, a UDOT spokesman, only that it will be a lot. . : , . .. . S ; . moves David Sajtpnstall . , .jtfwraRKDMYNiws lt no secret that Sean Hannity, the conservative Fox News commen- tutor, has helped to raie Rudy Giu- liani's profile but now hes helped the former mayor raise money, too. In a little noticed event this month, cohost of Fox News Hannity "Hannity & Colmes and host of a introduced the popular radio show at a closed- Republican : : front-runn- fundraiser Aug. 9 in Cincinnati, campaign officials door, : 1250-per-hea-d acknowledge. In so doing, some believe that Hannity while clearly a commen- tator paid to expresshis opinions . . M8evi& CL-IFFa- the guy, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson stumped for Democratic candidates in at the UWvers&ydf Pennsylvania's An-- . recent yetra anchor Dan Rather And theh-CB- S nenberg School for Communications. ; caused howls of protest when he at- Hannity declined to comment, but his bosses at Fox News Channel and tended a Democratic Party fundraiser WABC, flagship station for his nation- - in Texas in 2001 organized by his , al radio show, defended their marquee daughter. .'. star by arguing that hes hot a journal- - '. Rather whose transgression was ist and shouldnt be judged as one. in many way s worse, since news an- Sean is not a journalist Sean is chors are expected to betray no bias in covering the a conservative commentator," said ' Bill Shine, Foxs senior vice president apologized... But the dustup led to a public de-of programming. "Sean doesnt hide, and. never has hidden, his beliefs from bate dping which one Fox News col- anyone. leagtif of Hannitys, commentator Bill OReilly, made it clear that he saw an Hannity isn't the first news figure ethical problem in attending political to cross the line into fundraising James Carville, a Democratic con-fundraisers,..; "Now Rather gave a speech sultant and CNN personality, has . in-ki- . . crossed the line from punditry into financial rainmaking for a president tial candidate whose bottom line is . now better for it. contribution to Re- Foxs publican politicians in the form of softball coverage is one thing," said SteveRendaQ, senior analyst at Fair- ness and Accuracy in Report ing, a media watchdog group. But this is the first time they have crossed this line into fundraising More independent observers said Hannitys appearance underscored the blurring lines between news and advocacy and could be interpreted as a kind of endorsement. It signals within that brand of con- servat ism that they ought to vote for tely news-immedia- . . . ata.. fundraiser, so money changed hands. I mean, I wouldnt tta that, OReilly said on his own Fox show, The O'Reilly Factor." Hannity's leanings for Giuliani The Hot- have been line, a political journal, has noted that through July 15, Quhani had enjoyed 1 15 nunutes of free face time on Fox more than half (rf that on Hannity A Cobnes. His airtime on Fax was 25 percent higher than any other Repub- lican candidate, data show, The Aug. 9 fundraiser where Han- nity worked the crowd for Guliani, held at Jeff Rubys Steakhouse in downtown Cincinnati, was closed to the press. No known recording of his comments exist... . . Ftt3 - It costs us less to do business -so It saves you $$$l PRCMDCDUKjE Mustoni, Qualitf Monuments Large Selection of Colors & Styles. 725$asth 900 East Provo, Utah NEW CARS MARTINO UNDER S10K Th Nw to SuprisM 818-CAR- VV"37580W'Vr.': S 410 SO. 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