One of two things happened. Aliens crashed their invisible ship into it, or... God sat on it and broke it.
I can tell you all for a fact, it needed to be replaced. 2 years ago they ran a news story about how Minnesota had a bunch of shitty bridges that needed to be replaced, and that one was one of the big ones.
Can't we get a mix of illegals and H1B visa-types to rebuild this place? Much like the ancient Romans before the Goths turned on them.
They're probably on a bus heading North right now. We wouldn't want the jobs going to citizens. Kraft Foods is laying off 4800. Micron another couple hundred. There's 5K to get the ball rolling.