Engineering experts determined in February that corrosion of the metal cables supporting the Genoa highway bridge had reduced the bridge’s strength by 20 percent – a finding that came months before it collapsed last week, an Italian newsmagazine reported Monday. …
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant on Tuesday ordered the Mississippi Department of Transportation to immediately close 83 locally maintained bridges that the federal government says are in bad shape. “These bridges have been deemed unsafe for the traveling public,” Bryant said …
The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has decided that an 80-year-old bridge over a creek in Guthrie will be replaced as part of a continued effort to decrease the number of obsolete bridges in the state. In 2004, 17 percent of the …
A national transportation research group released a report Tuesday that found Connecticut motorists are losing $5.1 billion annually due to congestion-related delays, higher vehicle operating costs and traffic crashes. The annual report determined 33 percent of major locally and state-maintained …
The Kansas Department of Transportation says more than $10 million in state funds will be spent on 77 rural bridges listed as deficient. The Wichita Eagle reports the bridges, rated deficient because they aren’t able to handle legal load limits, …
Whether it’s durable construction, attentive maintenance or just a fortunate geography that doesn’t include the freeze and frost-filled winters of the North, Florida’s bridges continue to be among of the sturdiest in the nation. An Associated Press study of federal …
The Associated Press analyzed the federal National Bridge Inventory to focus on the thousands of bridges that have the unfortunate designation of being both “structurally deficient” and “fracture critical” – a combination of red flags that experts say indicates significant …
Pennsylvania is among the nation’s leaders in bridges that both lack backup protection against collapse in case a single, vital component fails and are designated by highway officials as being in need of repair, an Associated Press review of national …
Pennsylvania highway officials say they’re adding or increasing weight restrictions on some 1,000 bridges, a decision prompted by safety and preservation concerns. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced the initiative on Thursday, less than two months after proposals to increase …
A new report says that West Virginia has some of the nation’s worst bridges. The report from Transportation for America ranks West Virginia as having the 14th worst rate of deficient bridges in the nation. West Virginia improved since the …