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How do engineers determine whether a bridge is safe?
David Proeber
DECATUR — As a driver for Birch Bus Service in Cerro Gordo, Deb Taylor crosses Lake Decatur twice every school day using Reas Bridge Road, one of 60 Macon County bridges deemed “poor” on a federal database. It’s a designation that concerns her.
“Especially when you’re carrying precious cargo that we do,” she said.
Reas Bridge is set for repairs after being listed for years in the National Bridge Inventory, a Federal Highway Administration database that tracks the structural integrity of 620,000 bridges in the U.S.
The vast majority of bridges nationally and in Macon County are structurally sound and motorists are in no danger. But there also those that fall into the lower categories, and officials say they are taking steps to address any issues. ....

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