© Paul MartinkaParts of the Brooklyn Promenade are considered structurally deficient, according to the report.
The Empire State ranks 11th in the nation for dilapidated bridges, as nearly every single span in the state — 99.46% — is in need of some kind of repair, a report said.
And nearly 10 percent of New York State's 17,642 bridges were so bad they classified as "structurally deficient," according to a 2024 report from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association.
The 10 worst are all in New York City. The bridge hall of shame included parts of I-95 and the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx — and most notoriously, the infamous, elevated stretch of the BQE at the Brooklyn Promenade.
"Usually you don't want to be at the top of that list because it definitely indicates there are some challenges with the condition of bridges," ARTBA Chief Economist Alison Black told The Post.
West Virginia came in second followed by South Dakota, Maine, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Michigan and North Dakota.
© ARTBA Bridge ReportStructurally deficient bridge statistics from the ARTBA Bridge report show the number of bridges in New York in need of repair have increase by 68 this year compared to the previous year.
"It doesn't mean the bridge is in danger of collapsing or falling down," Black said.
Black said most DOTs reduce weight loads before a structure comes close to collapsing.
"If during the inspection process there's any concern about the safety of a bridge or the traveling public, you'll see DOT might close a lane of a bridge...or reduce the weight of trucks that can go over it — there are some measures that they can take to reduce the load on the bridge," Black said.
But nearly all 17,548 of New York's 17,642 bridges need some type of repair, according to the report, which is compiled using bridge inspection records collected by each state and turned over the the U.S. Department of Transportation.
© Paul MartinkaParts of the Brooklyn Promenade are considered structurally deficient, according to the report.
Federal funds can help close the gap with transportation projects.
New York state is currently eligible for $1.2 billion in funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, but the state has only earmarked about $46.5 million of that money so far. The state still has until 2026 to spend the rest of the dough.
A spokesperson from the state Department of Transportation told The Post that money will be spread out across more than 235 individual local bridge projects through the Bridge NY program.
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Uncovering the Real Truth: What REALLY Happened in Western North Carolina | Bear Independent & Billy "YOU'VE GOT NUCLEAR FUEL OR WASTE FUELS, YOU ALSO HAVE THE FACILITY AT NFS…THEY LOST A 10,000 SQUARE-FOOT DECONTAMINATION UNIT – AND ALL…THE DECONTAMINATION EQUIPMENT WASHED INTO THE RIVER" by Forbidden.NewsOct 22, 2024 [Link]
"What is beginning to emerge from the fog of the war being waged against the People of Southern Appalachia is an East Palestine-type of disaster, on a much more massive scale on every level; in magnitude, premeditation and evil.
The main purpose of this post is to warn people to stay away from the banks of the French Broad River and from any river downstream of heavy industry affected by these floodwaters, because several of the rescue/cadaver dogs have started dying from exposure to the toxins in the river sludge; from the plastics factory and paper mill that were overwhelmed by the breakneck flooding, along with several other fuel spills – horrifyingly, including a nuclear fuel spill from a semi truck found buried under 10 feet of mud, loaded with 250 55-gallon drums of "live barrels" of nuclear fuel rods from Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS), in Erwin, Tennessee. One might ask what was a truck loaded with nuclear fuel rods even doing in a hurricane? NFS also reportedly lost a 10,000 square-foot decontamination unit with all of their decontamination equipment, which were presumably washed into the Nolichucky River. Although the location of this truck and the location of the nuclear facility are not named by Grindestone Ministries' Pastor Bear, the website linked above matches the company named in his report.
If my assumptions are correct, this nuclear fuel spill is downstream from Western North Carolina and it will not affect Asheville and the Appalachian Mountains to the east but it may affect the more densely-populated areas of the Tennessee Valley, downstream, along the Nolichucky and French Broad Rivers, including metropolitan Knoxville.
Needless to say, there is a massive cover-up underway..."
Unless the debt gets, you know, died suddenly.