State Announces Funding To Repair Bridge In Irvington

IRVINGTON, NY — To deal with severe weather and crumbling infrastructure, New York officials have pledged another hefty amount of assistance for local governments to work on some of their most urgent bridge and culvert issues. Grants are going to 11 projects in the mid-Hudson Valley.

The state's BRIDGE NY initiative, which this go-round includes $60.1 million total for the Hudson region, aims to make New York's local communities stronger, its infrastructure more resilient and more equipped to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

It also helps tackle the long list of bridges and culverts in bad shape.

The projects in Irvington is:

• $1.4 million to the Village of Irvington for the replacement of the Route 9 culvert carrying the tributary to Barney Brook, Westchester County.

One in three bridges in the United States needs major repair work or should be replaced, according to the latest report from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, which ranked New York 12th for the percentage of structurally deficient bridges. Rockland was the only New York county outside NYC with any bridges on the annual report's list of 200 Most Traveled U.S. Structurally Deficient Bridges:

• Interstate 87 over Rte 303
• Interstate 87 over Route 59 WB, Rte 59