Quarter Of American Bridges Declared Structurally Deficient or Functionally Obsolete

Scholars and Rogues blogs on the 51,394 bridges the federal Department of Transportation lists as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete and the stalled The Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009.

The repair and replacement rate of deficient or obsolete U.S. bridges is rising, however. According to DOT statistics, the number of lousy bridges has been reduced by 14,087 since 2000, an average of only 1,565 a year. So maybe (you remember, of course, all that talk about those shovel-ready stimulus projects?) that repair rate will increase, and we will have licked our bad bridge problem in only 100 years.

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