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Posted: 4:13 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, 2011
Paul Crockett / Staff
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Oklahoma ranks high on a list we would like to be much lower on. Only Pennsylvania has a larger percentage of structurally deficient bridges.
The study released by Transportation for America finds 22% of the state’s nearly 24,000 bridges are structurally deficient. That number includes bridges maintained not just by the state, but cities, towns and counties as well.
Terri Angier with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation says structurally deficient does not mean a bridge is unsafe. “If it were we would certainly be shutting it down.”
Angier says one reason Oklahoma ranks so high is that we diverted funding for roads and bridges for about four decades to other items. “We we ranked number one for a long time in diverting our transportation funding to other things.” FULL ARTICLE
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Mon, September 19, 2011
by John Cox