Dozens of state transportation departments and various state and city governments have dropped the term «accident» from references to highway crashes, the article adds. (sciencemag.org)
For three weeks, detoured motorists cursed as lawyers for the city of Syracuse and state transportation department dickered over who would pay to demolish a crumbling building that was threatening to fall onto Interstate 81. (syracuse.com)
But William Ellsworth, a geophysicist at USGS in Menlo Park, suggests that it could still be useful — for instance, for state transportation departments trying to prioritize which bridges should be singled out for repairs or retrofits first. (sciencemag.org)