"Maybe our bridges are fine" I think thus can and perhaps should be refuted as the bridges are not fine. The 2019 report of bridges in WA found 6.6% to be in p

"Maybe our bridges are fine" I think thus can and perhaps should be refuted as the bridges are not fine. The 2019 report of bridges in WA found 6.6% to be in poor condition and more than half of the approximate 8000 bridges need repair. https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/washington/ https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/washington/ Seattle has about 6 or 7 very major bridges. One of the largest, the west seattle bridge has been closed for over a year because it was suddenly in danger of collapse. This is a bridge that carried over 100k cars per day. (https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/bridges-stairs-and-other-structures/bridges/west-seattle-bridge-program https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs...) I think the point of grimacing while crossing a bridge is that the engineers know the problems and how pervasive they are. As a user of websites, you may think some are really solid. Having worked for one (a website virtually everyone has used), when you see the bug queues, all the outages, and all the problems, you realize it's not the steel fortress that it would appear to be from the native outsider