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There are about three thousand bridges in Latvia, more than a third of which belong to local and regional governments. Most of the bridges were built in the sixties and seventies of the last century and have come under the control and care of local and regional governments after the restoration of Latvia’s national independence. The State Audit Office performed an audit in 11 local and regional governments and established that the bridges of those local and regional governments had not received the necessary attention from the state or their direct owners, that is, local and regional governments. As a result, the safety of at least 98 bridges out of the 332 bridges owned by those local and regional governments is uncertain.
