Germany’s Autobahn Bridges Are Crumbling

The new 3.2-kilometer (2 mile) stretch of Berlin’s A100 ring road that opened last month after 12 years of development and around €720 million ($842 million) of investment should have symbolized Germany’s belated conversion to more infrastructure spending.
Instead, the ribbon cutting was overshadowed by growing alarm about the dilapidated state of the nation’s road bridges, including those on the Autobahn built during the country’s post-World War II economic boom; these overpasses and river crossings are rapidly wearing out, and thousands must now be refurbished or replaced.