The Minnesota bridge tragedy prompted several Seattle locals to put fingers to keyboard and compose Letters to the Editor regarding our aging infrastructure. The list of expensive endeavors and proposals whose dollars are cited as being better spent on things like the aging 520 bridge and Alaskan Way Viaduct include: light rail, free health care to the children of illegal immigrants, “President Bush’s recent gift of $250 billion of our tax money to the richest 8,000 families”, the $30 million parking garage at Woodland Park Zoo, bicycle paths, a new arena for the Sonics, and, of course, the war.