PERKASIE, Pa. (WPVI) -- Around Perkasie, Bucks County, the Walnut Street Bridge has become as known for cracks as the Liberty Bell.
Crumbling walls and bare rebar can be seen underneath.
Andy Rumbold, one of the 2,000 drivers who use the 100 year old span every day, snapped pictures of a 73 pound chunk of concrete that popped out of the bridge earlier this month.
"I don't really know how safe I feel. I don't feel safe when I'm parked on it waiting for the light to turn green," Rumbold said.
The county-owned bridge was slated to be replaced in 2001. But borough officials say PennDOT pulled funding and sent it to the federal government.
Since the bridge, which was built in 1907 and rehabbed in 1970, has been deemed historic, it's caught up in red tape.
"When you have a historic resource, there are some groups that would prefer it have it be rehabilitated then replaced so right now they're going through a feasibility study where they're going to determine if the bridge can be rehabilitated instead of replaced," Perkasie Borough Manager Andrea Coaxum said.
There are concerns the bridge could delay emergency response. The fire department uses it to get from its headquarters on the north side to calls on the south side, but some of its heaviest equipment already exceeds the ten ton weight limit.
"If they cannot get across the Callowhill Bridge which is the next bridge down, if they have to go down to 313, roughly a six mile roundtrip to get to the south part of town," Perkasie Councilman Justin Stottlar said.
The federal government says the project likely won't start until 2018.
But with increased traffic due to new housing developments and construction to nearby bridges, borough officials aren't sure it'll last that long.