07.27
Every state is facing the problems of a declining infrastructure. I often wonder how we ever got it built in the first place.
In a recent study released by a federal committee, the Oregon Department of Transportation reports that 1,665 bridges in the state are deficient. But that doesn’t mean all of those bridges are unsafe or that commuters need to worry every time they drive over one.
The majority of the Oregon bridges on the list did not end up there because they are structurally unsafe, but because they can no longer meet the demands of traffic that has increased as populations have grown.
The bridges are what engineers refer to as functionally obsolete, and according to a new report by the Committee of Transportation and Infrastructure in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1,188 Oregon bridges on the list fall into this category.
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