West Shore Road over Mill Neck Creek

Nassau County, New York · rated Fair in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

United States Bridge Conditions2025 National Bridge Inventory, FHWACompiled August 20, 2026

• West Shore Road over Mill Neck Creek in Nassau County, New York, is rated in fair condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
• Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 5 (fair condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 1938 and reconstructed in 2024, making it 87 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 11,399 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2020).
• Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
• It is one of 234 of the 328 inventoried bridges in Nassau County rated fair (71.3%); 3 (0.9%) are rated poor.
• Its traffic status in the 2025 inventory is open, no restriction (NBI item 41).
• Its class is unchanged from 2024 (fair), but component ratings moved: deck 5 to 6, substructure 5 to 6.
• Status change: its 2024 load posting has been removed.
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated June 2024, on a 24-month routine inspection cycle.
• It has fracture-critical members (NBI item 92A): steel tension members without a redundant load path, which get their own scheduled inspections.
• A fair rating means the lowest-rated major component scores 5 or 6 on FHWA's 0-9 scale: some deterioration or minor section loss, but the structure is sound. It is the middle class, not a warning.

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Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2025 data as reported by the New York department of transportation.

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