By Christine Zhang

The Baltimore Sun conducted an analysis of bridge conditions in the state, with a focus on bridges in the Baltimore area. The Sun looked at which bridges were listed in "poor" condition by the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) — and in particular, which have been "poor" for several years.

The results were reported in a October 8, 2018 Baltimore Sun story titled "How safe are Maryland's bridges?" (print headline: "A look at state of Md.'s bridges.")

The Sun's findings and analysis are available in the "analysis" notebook in this repository, 02_analysis.ipynb (note: viewable on desktop).

https://twitter.com/baltsundata

There are many angles to explore with this data, beyond just the ones we looked into for our story.

Have something to contribute? Send us a pull request or contact us on Twitter @baltsundata or via email (address linked above). We'll make a community contributions folder to store your analysis.

You can also fork your own copy of this repo to your own account.

All code in this repository is available under the MIT License. The data files are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.