Locally, 60.2% of Orange County’s bridges are rated fair or poor, compared to 51.1% in San Bernardino County, 46.8% in Riverside County, and 35.6% in Los Angeles County.
California’s second-, third-, and fourth-busiest deficient bridges are also in Los Angeles County. Interstate 5 over Marietta Street was built in 1948, when Harry Truman was president, and sees 258,000 crossings every day; while State Route 134 over Pacific Avenue and State Route 60 over Wilcox Avenue were built when Lyndon Johnson was president. Each handles more than 231,000 crossings per day.
, forcing rescuers to rappel into a snowy ravine to free stunned bus riders after the road buckled beneath them. The failed Forbes Avenue bridge over Fern Hollow Creek carried just 14,500 vehicles a day.More than half of the bridge-miles in California — 53.7% — are in fair or poor condition, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Bridge Index.The worst was San Mateo County, where more than 86% of the bridges were in fair or poor condition. In Orange County, 60.
“Given our state’s booming economy and budget surpluses, however, now may be the time to reconsider infrastructure health before we have bridge collapses, drinking water problems or related issues for things people just expect to work,” McNally said.All told, there are 25,737 bridges in California. Nearly 6% of them — 1,493 — are classified as structurally deficient, meaning that at least one key element is in poor or worse condition.
SOURCE: California Statewide Local Streets and Road Needs Assessment, California State Association of Counties SOURCE: California Statewide Local Streets and Road Needs Assessment, California State Association of Counties ARTBA found.
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