--- title: How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database | daily.dev description: The US Department of Transportation runs InfoBridge, a public database of bridge inspection and forecast data. It's maintained by the Federal Highway... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-bad-is-that-bridge-a-government-database-pyhmdr5u6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database | daily.dev og:description: The US Department of Transportation runs InfoBridge, a public database of bridge inspection and forecast data. It's maintained by the Federal Highway... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-bad-is-that-bridge-a-government-database-pyhmdr5u6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PYHmDr5u6.png og:image:alt: How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The US Department of Transportation runs InfoBridge, a public database of bridge inspection and forecast data. It's maintained by the Federal Highway Administration's Long Term Bridge Performance program and pulls from the National Bridge Inventory, National Bridge Element data, and even NASA's MERRA-2 climate data. Anyone can look up a specific bridge, like the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles, listed as 'Poor' with a $706 million deck replacement planned ahead of the 2028 Olympics. A 2024 ARTBA report found 36 percent of US bridges, 221,800 spans, need repair or replacement. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Where can I check the condition rating of a specific US bridge like the Vincent Thomas Bridge? The Federal Highway Administration's LTBP InfoBridge database lets anyone look up condition data for specific bridges by National Bridge Inventory number. The Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles (NBI number 53 1471), built in 1963, is listed as 'Poor,' with its deck, substructure and superstructure health indexes trending down sharply since around 2019. _Track the condition of local infrastructure projects and data releases on daily.dev._ ### What percentage of US bridges need repair or replacement according to recent data? A 2024 American Road & Transportation Builders Association report found that 36 percent of US bridges, totaling 221,800 spans, need repair or replacement. Of those, 42,067 spans were rated 'poor,' and those poor-condition bridges together carry 168.5 million motorists daily. _Developers digging into public infrastructure datasets can follow similar reports on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Taking Roads and Bridges literally](https://daily.dev/posts/taking-roads-and-bridges-literally-mrg78v4yd) · Andrew Nesbitt · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-data-center-boom-could-be-bad-news-for-other-infrastructure-projects-09a9wro6r) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [3D-printed bridge points the way to greener construction](https://daily.dev/posts/3d-printed-bridge-points-the-way-to-greener-construction-oecqxualn) · MIT News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Moving from Risk to Resilience: Securing Critical Infrastructure by Tackling Technical Debt](https://daily.dev/posts/moving-from-risk-to-resilience-securing-critical-infrastructure-by-tackling-technical-debt-aq95tje4m) · Cisco · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-bad-is-that-bridge-a-government-database-pyhmdr5u6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Bad Is That Bridge: A Government Database","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-bad-is-that-bridge-a-government-database-pyhmdr5u6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-bad-is-that-bridge-a-government-database-pyhmdr5u6"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T14:57:57.864Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T14:59:37.814Z","description":"The US Department of Transportation runs InfoBridge, a public database of bridge inspection and forecast data. 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