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Utah's bridges are aging and deteriorating as state falls behind on maintenance.
Troubled Waters
A truck passes through the freeway spaghetti bowl in South Salt Lake on October 23, 2024. Benjamin Wood CAPITOL HILL—Utah's road bridges are getting older, larger and more expensive to fix, with the ratio of bridges classified in "good" condition falling from more than 50% in 2018 to less than 25% today.
That was the warning to lawmakers from the Utah Department of Transportation on Wednesday, as highway officials stressed that the gap between maintenance needs and maintenance capacity is growing wider each year.
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