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* USA - 23,357 deficient bridges
* DC - USA has fewer deficient bridges than a decade ago, GAO says
(Photo: the Interstate 5 bridge in the US State of Washington which collapsed into the Skagit River, north of Seattle, on May 23, 2013)
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line, by David Tanner -14 June 2013: -- The U.S. Government Accountability Office says the U.S. has 23,357 fewer deficient bridges than it did a decade ago, but there’s still a long way to go to repair or replace the more than 151,000 that are still on the deficient list... The GAO updated its report on deficient bridges in the U.S. following the May 23 collapse of an Interstate 5 bridge in Washington state... The bridge that collapsed carried 71,000 vehicles per day, including more than 6,000 trucks... The GAO says U.S. bridge inventory totaled 607,380 in 2012, and that about one in four, or about 151,497, were considered deficient. The deficiency number combines bridges listed as “structurally deficient” with those listed as “functionally obsolete” ... Ten years prior, when the bridge inventory totaled 591,243, the number of deficient bridges totaled 174,854 – a ratio of about one in 3.4...
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