COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina is facing “a real challenge” when it comes to aging bridges, according to the state’s secretary of transportation.

More than a quarter of all bridges in the state are 60 years or older, and many more are rapidly aging.

The South Carolina Department of Transportation said funding levels, until recently, were not sufficient to tackle this reality, and if they did not significantly increase, around half of all bridges in the state would hit that 60-year mark in the next decade.

Last year, the General Assembly gave SCDOT $200 million for bridge improvements.

That money is already allocated, and the legislature just gave the agency another $200 million in this year’s budget for the same purpose.

“I can guarantee you when we meet about the budget in Au

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