![]() ![]() Their crowded front yard mirrors his profession - a grain truck, tractor, sedan, two pick-ups and assorted machines inhabit the lawn like industrial yard ornaments. The couple recently married, and Danny Stidham makes a living raising livestock and cultivating crops on their property north of Harrisburg, a sleepy town of 271. But they do know the bridge and hundreds of others like it, mostly in rural areas, may have to last many more years before they are replaced.ĭanny and Kathy Stidham live north of the bridge over Coon Creek, in a modest two-story house in front of a wide expanse of rolling hills. MoDOT engineers can't gauge how much longer a bridge has, or how soon until it must be closed. While MoDOT insists that all open bridges are safe, poor bridges need more frequent inspections and maintenance, and they must eventually be replaced. In this case, water, salt and chloride have seeped into the concrete over time, weakening the deck and threatening the bridge substructure. ![]() ![]() Known as bridge P0384 by the Missouri Department of Transportation, or MoDOT, the 64-year-old bridge has been deemed "poor" by the Federal Highway Administration, meaning the bridge is "structurally deficient." As Missouri bridges and roads deteriorate, funding for repairs is nowhere in sightĬOLUMBIA - A small bridge spans Coon Creek, a shallow waterway flanked by a row of trees on either bank, painting a dense wall of foliage through the flat, rural hillside a couple miles north of Harrisburg. ![]()
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