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Granite State Ranks 14th for Percentage of "Worst Bridges"

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Monday, April 13, 2015   

CONCORD, N.H. - If your morning commute takes you across a bridge in New Hampshire, a new report finds you could be traveling across a span with issues related to its superstructure, deck or substructure.

Alison Black, chief economist with the American Road and Transportation Builders Association says New Hampshire ranks 14th among states, with 13 percent of the bridges in its inventory that in serious need of repair, according to the group's new report.

"That's 324 bridges that are classified as structurally deficient," says Black. "The average age of a deficient bridge is 76 years old, so New Hampshire's dealing with quite an aging infrastructure."

New Hampshire did slightly better than Maine which has the highest percentage of deficient bridges in New England. Nationwide, the report indicates more than 60,000 bridges are structurally compromised and many of those connect the most-traveled interstate highways.

Black says Congress faces an end-of-May deadline for funding the Highway Trust Fund, and many states are in a holding pattern waiting on a clear signal as to whether federal funds will be forthcoming.

"So, when there's that uncertainty, that certainly impacts the pace of some of this work, as well as getting new projects out the door," she says. "For many New England states they are very highly dependent on that federal aid program for their capital investment."

Black says the nation is under-funding road work at all levels. She says a big concern is that even as states play catch-up on bridge work, it often comes at the expense of pavement needs in many states.


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