Dozens more structures will be replaced in Year #2
South Carolina Secretary of Transportation Christy Hall has announced that the SC Department of Transportation (SCDOT) has met its targets in Year #1 of the 10-Year Plan to Fix SC’s Roads and Bridges in the Bridge Replacement Program. The 10-Year Plan is the road map the agency is using for the new and sustainable revenue provided by the Roads Bill in 2017. The Plan has four major programs. Replacing load-restricted and structurally deficient bridges is one of them.
Hall said, "Our roads and bridges have been neglected for three decades due to a shortfall in funding. Our 10-Year Plan is the guide we will use to recover and restore the state’s highway system to good levels."
Hall noted that SCDOT is responsible for 8,431 bridges in the state system. The vast majority of SC’s bridges (92%) are in good structural health. The 10-Year Plan is strategically targeting the remaining 8% of the state’s bridges that have weight limits placed upon them or are otherwise classified as structurally deficient on our major highways.
To accomplish this goal, SCDOT has doubled the funding allocated to bridge replacements. The 10-year goal is to replace 465 bridges in the restricted or deficient categories. As of Year #1, 51 bridge projects are currently under construction across the state. The plan for Year #2 is to have another 41 bridge replacements under construction in the next 12 months.
SCDOT encourages the public to review the agency’s progress of all projects in addition to those in the 10-Year Plan by using the "Project Viewer" on SCDOT’s "Public Involvement" website. The "Project Viewer" can be directly accessed using this link: https://scdot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=ca1cd69fc88945f4bb465e16765d761c
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