TRIBUNE-REVIEW: … [A] national study released in March by Washington, D.C.-based Transportation for America found that 26.5 percent of Pennsylvania’s bridges remain structurally deficient — the highest rate in the country, and more than double the national average of 11.5 percent. State officials use a slightly different system of counting, but agree that Pennsylvania bridges need a lot of work.
“We’re getting more and more bridges that are deteriorating,” said Scott Christie, PennDOT’s deputy secretary for highway administration.
Christie said the number of structurally deficient bridges in the state will rise because of the current rate of funding repairs. So, too, will the number of closed and weight-restricted bridges. Structural problems keep 42 bridges closed to all traffic across the state and 669 more are posted with warnings… (more)
