CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland leaders want railroad operators to answer for crumbling bridges, rusting support beams, and hazardous, eyesore conditions throughout the city. The problem drew a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - City officials in Cleveland will be meeting Thursday afternoon to discuss rail safety following an assessment of railroad-owned bridges in the city of Cleveland.

Mayor Justin Bibb ordered a city-wide survey of railroad-owned bridges to assess how bad this problem is. That survey produced a list of nearly 100 bridges in need of repairs.

On Tuesday, Sen. Sherrod Brown wrote a letter to Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw demanding that the company fix the Lake Avenue Bridge, one of the company's 20 railroad properties in Cleveland.