Tulsa World
by: JARREL WADE World Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
10/19/2011 2:35:13 PM
A national study released Wednesday names the Tulsa metro area the worst in the nation for percent of structurally deficient bridges compared to similarly sized metro areas.
The only sizeable metro area that has a higher percentage of bad bridges is Pittsburgh at 30.4 percent.
Tulsa is at 27.5 percent -- the highest among metro areas between 500,000 to 1 million population, according to the study produced by Transportation for America.
Oklahoma City also ranked as the worst for structurally deficient bridges in its category of metro areas from 1 million to 2 million people.
A spokesperson with Transportation for America said the Tulsa metro area includes bridges in Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa and Wagoner counties.
Though the state is known to routinely rank very high in the nation for bad bridges, local transportation officials said the numbers may be skewed because they include a large number of rural areas in the study’s definition of the Tulsa metro... FULL ARTICLE
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