Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania got an emergency call about I-95 last June, his first thought turned to semantics.
“When you say ‘collapse,’ do you really mean collapse?” he recalled wondering.
Highways don’t typically do that, but then tractor-trailers don’t typically flip over and catch fire, which had happened on an elevated section of the road in Philadelphia.
Shapiro’s second, third and fourth thoughts were that he and other government officials needed to do the fastest repair imaginable.
He knew how disruptive and costly the road’s closure would be and how frustrated Pennsylvanians would get.
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