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TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA

The State of Our Nation’s Bridges

Despite billions of dollars in federal, state and local funds directed toward the maintenance of existing bridges, 69,223 bridges — 11.5 percent of total highway bridges in the U.S. — are classified as “structurally deficient,” requiring significant maintenance, rehabilitation or replacement.

Two key problems persist: while Congress has repeatedly declared bridge safety a national priority, existing federal programs don’t ensure that aging bridges actually get fixed; and the current level of investment is nowhere near what is needed to keep up with our rapidly growing backlog of aging bridges.

View the Interactive Map (t4america.org): The Fix We’re In For: The State of Our Bridges

About Transportation for America
www.t4america.org
Transportation for America has formed a broad coalition of housing, business, environmental, public health, transportation, equitable development, and other organizations. We’re all seeking to align our national, state, and local transportation policies with an array of issues like economic opportunity, climate change, energy security, health, housing and community development.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at 10:00 am and is filed under Aging Infrastructure, Bipartisan, Bridges, Funding, Infra Views, Inland Waterways, Local, National, Policy, Roads, Sustainability . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.