10% OF 612,000 BRIDGES ACROSS U.S COMMUNITIES NEEDS REPAIR OR REPLACEMET

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By Madeline Holcombe
There are over 612,000 bridges in the United States. Almost 10% of them need to be repaired or replaced.

That adds up to 55,710 bridges, according to a report on the state of the nation's roads and bridges from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA).

The states with bridges in the worst shape? Iowa, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Nebraska.

Americans cross these structures in disrepair 185 million times a day.

"If the bridge is structurally deficient, one of the key elements is below a 4 on a scale from 0 to 9, meaning poor or worse condition," Alison Black, the transportation association's chief economist and author of the report, told CNN. 

"It doesn't mean the bridge is unsafe, but it does mean that the bridge is in need of repair."

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