Per the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s analysis of recently released federal data, 54,259 bridges in the United States are structurally deficient—nearly 9 percent of the country’s 612,677 total bridges. Vehicles make 174 million crossings every day over bridges are at least 25 years past their projected useful lifespans. ARTBA states it would take 37 years to bring all bridges up to standard at the current pace of repair or replacement—at a cost exceeding $700 billion.
Iowa, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and New York have the most structurally deficient bridges, while the District of Columbia, Nevada, Delaware, Hawaii and Utah have the least. Visit artbabridgereport.org for a list of deficient bridges by state and congressional district.
