[written by colfer as a comment]
County bridges are easy to search on the national Bridge Inventory (NBI). The city bridges are not.
Here’s a really bad one that if I recall The Hook or C-Ville missed in its recent story:
250 Bypass over the NS railroad tracks at McIntire Park. This is the bridge between McIntire Rd. and Rugby Ave. (not Rugby Rd., that’s a typo): That 31% sufficiency rating is bad, worse than the Belmont Bridge, but maybe the city is not responsible for it. [ref]
By contrast, Free Bridge is 87.8%, and the worst in Albemarle are still listed as:
Advance Mills 2.5%
Proffit Rd. (over NS railroad): 4.5%
Free State Rd. (over NS railroad): 5%
Who knows how political these things are. Each report has a cost estimate for fixing it included.
The Belmont Bridge (Avon St. or 9th St. SE) is 49.7%. [ref]
The Cville bridges are hard to find because the location field, where the county would go, is blank.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Tagged as: Albemarle County, Charlottesville, Government, Questions
Yep. Good ol’ Advance Mills. We’re moving there next month from PGH, and they said it would be repaired by the spring. I didn’t believe it then, and I sure don’t now! I lived in Westport, CT when I was much younger, and they had a bridge that was “being repaired” for 5 YEARS. Sigh.