FO bridges reaching 27.2 percent. Bridges
rated as good totaled 16.3 percent; fair, 58.7
percent; and poor 25 percent. There's a total
of 82,302 square feet of bridge deck surface
in the state, with 25.4 percent of that rated as
structurally defi cient.
The Rhode Island DOT rated its bridges as
a 1 on the 1 to 5 scale due to the age of the
bridges and impact of the weather. However,
during the next fi scal year, the state plans to
start 98 new bridges and complete 26, with
another 85 in the planning stage.
49. HAWAII
Hawaii has moved from fourth to third from
the bottom in the number of SD/FO bridges.
Out of its 1,112 bridges, 61 were considered
SD and 414 rated as FO.
Hawaii did not provide good, fair or poor rat-
ings, but did report total deck surface area of 12.5
million square feet, with 5.6 percent rated as SD.
48. NEW YORK
With 37.7 percent of its bridges rated SD/
FO, New York is now positioned fourth from
the bottom. SD bridges totaled 1,948 out of
17,498, with 4,643 being rated FO.
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