“Congressmen and people from outside this area, they only understand it, they only get it, when they see it. If we're going to help New Orleans rebuild, we want people who visit New Orleans to see what happened, to see what devastation it's caused.”
“The analysis we've done -- the rigorous structural analysis based on the last inspection report -- indicates that this bridge should not have fallen down on its own accord without something else happening to it.”
“Do we have other bridges like this in this area? Yes. We know this is a critical situation. This is a dramatic situation. We don't want this to happen again.”
“We're looking at any adjacent box-beam structures with a bituminous deck and a condition rating of structurally deficient in any one of three categories--the deck, superstructure [beams] and substructure [piers and back walls].”