State and local transportation agencies, with a big assist from federal funds, are continuing to achieve modest progress in trimming the nation’s still-daunting backlog of structurally deficient bridges, according to a new American Road & Transportation Builders Association report.
The ARTBA report, released on April 13, also says that the cost of fixing all 46,154 structurally deficient bridges, plus the additional 81,000 that need to be replaced and more than 103,000 others that need improvements, is a mammoth $164 billion.