Tennessee (WOKI) – It’s been three months since the City of Knoxville and the Tennessee Department of Transportation shut down the Gay Street Bridge after a routine inspection found a steel beam was compromised making the bridge unsafe.

A report by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association shows that three of Tennessee’s most traveled bridges that are structurally deficient are in Knox County.

The spans of I-40 that crosses over University Avenue and 17th Street are traveled by around 140,000 vehicles a day.

The same report shows more than 7,000 bridges are in need of some kind of repair or replacement in Tennessee to the tune of $6.1 billion. TDOT’s budget for this fiscal year is just under 3 billion.

To view the full report, please go to https://artbabridgereport.org/state/profile/TN