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• This was a major success after the June 11, 2023, disaster was predicted to snarl traffic for months.
• Transportation engineer Lee D. Han explains how planners, transit agencies and city governments anticipate and manage these disruptions.

How do agencies plan for disruptions like this?

• Traditional long-term planning focuses on anticipating and preparing for growing and shifting transportation demand patterns.
• Shorter-term planning is about ensuring mobility and safety during service disruptions.
• In addition, agencies develop a detouring plan for each bridge in case of a structural failure or service disruption.

What are some major challenges of rerouting traffic?

• Transportation agencies need to build or find excess capacity before a bridge fails, so that the disrupted traffic has alternative routes.
• This is usually manageable in major urban areas that have many parallel routes and bridges and built-in redundancy in their road networks.
• But for rural areas, failure of a major bridge can mean extra hours or even days of travel.

Can these events permanently change commuting and traffic patterns?

• While traffic is disrupted, motorists change their commute patterns or may even switch to other modes, such as buses or commuter rail.
• In the end, it’s hard to tell just by looking at usage whether commuters have changed their travel patterns permanently.

Will money from the 2021 infrastructure bill reduce the risk of these kinds of events?

• The American Road & Transportation Builders Association estimated that 1 in 3 U.S. bridges need repair.
• At the current rate, we are unlikely to catch up to a state of good repair any time soon.
• But strategic investments like the 2021 infrastructure bill can likely help repair and address critical deterioration concerns for some high-risk bridges, roads, dams and other structures.

Can public transit fill part of the gap?

• Public transit may be able to fill the gap in several ways when key roadway links are destroyed or damaged.
• Drivers can shift to transit as long as their trip origins and destinations are conveniently located near transit stations.
• But local public transit services struggle to fill longer-distance gaps that extend beyond their service areas.
• In major urban areas like Philadelphia that have large populations and have invested a lot in their transit systems, public transit could carry as much as 25% of daily commute trips.

• For the second year, TTF is partnering with Children's Hospital Association to carry out the program.
• "Congratulations to the children's hospital recipients of this year's TTF's Children's Hospital Play Grants," said Amy Wimpey Knight, president of Children's Hospital Association.
• Recipients of TTF's Children's Hospital Play Grants 2022/2023 program include:
  Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago - Chicago, IL
  Baylor Scott & White McLane Children's Medical Center - Temple, TX
  Children's Hospital at Montefiore - Bronx, NY
  Children's Specialized Hospital - Mountainside, NJ
  Children's Hospital of Orange County - Orange, CA
  Elizabeth Seton Children's Center - Yonkers, NY
  Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital - Orlando, FL
  La Rabida Children's Hospital - Chicago, IL
  Loma Linda University Children's Hospital - Loma Linda, CA
  Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Network - Tacoma, WA
  MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital - Charleston, SC
  Norton Children's Hospital - Louisville, KY
  Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital - Maryland Heights, MO
  Spence and Becky Wilson Baptist Children's Hospital - Memphis, TN
  St. Louis Children's Hospital - St. Louis, MO
  The Children's Hospital at Saint Francis - Tulsa, OK
  University of New Mexico Children's Hospital - Albuquerque, NM
  UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center - Worcester, MA
  For more information about The Toy Foundation's Children's Hospital Play Grants program, visit ToyFoundation.org .
• The Children's Hospital Association is the national voice of more than 200 children's hospitals, advancing child health through innovation in the quality, cost, and delivery of care.

• For additional information on the Transaction, please refer to the previously issued press release dated May 31, 2022, that is posted to the Bendito website.
• The overall Transaction consideration payable to Azure of A$20.0 million did not change.
• Upon completion of its financing process, Bendito expects to commence drilling activities at its Alacran and Oposura projects.
• We welcome all the Mexico employees, contractors, and local stakeholders of Azure Minerals to Bendito Resources.

• Loma Negra (NYSE: LOMA; BYMA: LOMA) (Loma Negra or the Company), the leading cement producer in Argentina, announced on April 29, 2022 that the Company filed its annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 on Form 20-F (the 2021 Annual Report) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
• Founded in 1926, Loma Negra is the leading cement company in Argentina, producing and distributing cement, masonry cement, aggregates, concrete and lime, products primarily used in private and public construction.
• Loma Negra is a vertically-integrated cement and concrete company, with nationwide operations, supported by vast limestone reserves, strategically located plants, top-of-mind brands and established distribution channels.
• Loma Negra is listed both on BYMA and on NYSE in the U.S., where it trades under the symbol LOMA.