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by s5fs 1487 days ago
I think there's a gap between an inspector turning in a report and the repairs being prioritized, funded, and executed. Out here in Oregon we had a tunnel collapse and kill the inspector (this was back in 1999). News reported that the tunnel was inspected twice the year before it collapsed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_L._Edwards_Tunnel