Gov. Rendell is expected today to call for repairs on hundreds of aging bridges statewide – including many in the Philadelphia area.

Rendell will also list more than 1,100 bridges that are structurally deficient at an 11 a.m. press conference in Harrisburg.

The bridge repair program would require legislative approval. Last year, the legislature approved a transportation funding bill to provide about $530 million for Pennsylvania bridges and roads.

The state Department of Transportation last year found 6,000 structurally deficient bridges statewide. Of those, 60 heavily traveled bridges were in the Philadelphia region and rated as bad as, or worse than, the condition of the Minnesota bridge that collapsed last August.
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