Route Fifty: More than 47,000 of America’s bridges are in urgent need of repairs, slightly fewer than last year thanks largely to the federal government’s new definition of the term “structurally deficient.”
The new classification requirements, approved by the Federal Highway Administration two years ago, focus on a narrower range of characteristics that no longer include “bridges where the overall structural evaluation was rated in poor or worse condition, or with insufficient waterway openings,” according to the 2019 bridge report, compiled by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, or ARTBA.
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