(Source: Radio station WAMC, August 1, 2018)
ALBANY, N.Y. — U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer has launched a push to expand railroad bridge inspections and increase the number of federal bridge safety specialists nationwide. Nearly two weeks after a portion of a railroad bridge collapsed onto a busy street in downtown Syracuse, Schumer wants targeted inspections of upstate New York’s 2,158 private rail bridges. “281 in the Capital in the Capital Region, 261 in Central New York, 232 in Rochester/Finger Lakes, 487 in western New York, 446 in the Southern Tier, 307 in the Hudson Valley and 144 in North Country.”
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