How safe are Brooklyn’s bridges?
Much infrastructure crumbling, but major repairs underway
The collapse of a bridge on Interstate 5 in Washington State this past Thursday has some Brooklynites wondering about the condition of our own bridges.
According to Transportation for America’s 2011 State of Our Nation’s Bridges report, drivers have every reason to be concerned. In Brooklyn, more than 30 bridges and overpasses were rated “structurally insufficient” according to government standards.
The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) has already started major bridge repair work on the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.