Austin Road over Halfway Brook

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

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

• Austin Road over Halfway Brook in Sullivan 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 substructure, rated 5 (fair condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 1908 and reconstructed in 2004, making it 117 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 33 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2017).
• Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
• It is one of 230 of the 365 inventoried bridges in Sullivan County rated fair (63.0%); 27 (7.4%) 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 8 to 6, superstructure 9 to 8, substructure 6 to 5.
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated April 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.

View this bridge on a map → (41.47761, -74.91018)

Component ratings

Bridge details

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

Busiest bridges in Sullivan County

All bridges nearby: Sullivan County, NY bridge conditions · every bridge in Sullivan County · New York bridges.

Background: how bridge ratings work · what "poor" and "structurally deficient" actually mean · how often bridges are inspected.