The Pittsburgh bridge that collapsed was not known to be compromised and was not scheduled for maintenance via the federal infrastructure bill, according to government records.
here is a support of that bridge, 3 years ago
The steel bridge was built in 1970, and a September 2019 inspection of the city-owned bridge revealed the deck and superstructure to be in poor condition, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Bridge Inventory.
A spreadsheet on the state Department of Transportation website listed the bridge’s overall condition as poor, which, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, means “deterioration of primary structural elements has advanced.”
allegedly, congress passed a 1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill last year. Seems they did nothing quickly with that. Ironically a republican senator from Pennsylvania voted against the spending bill, and city govt democrats spent funds on speedhumps, instead of bridge inspections https://twitter.com/JonInPGH/status/1487122669585809412 . So, politicians, just not very easy to respect for anything
they simply can't be honest, or factual. For example, Pres Biden states that there are 43000 bridges, and they are all going to get money to get fixed.
If you do the math, 1.5 trillion dollars spending budget, and 43000 bridges? Now figure out how much it costs to fix bridges on average.
Your math result on that might vary, but it's billion or more per big bridge. There are 1500 billions in 1.5 trillion.
Unless he's talking about inspection costs alone, and maybe paint, that's only 1000 bridges fixes and the rest inspected
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-pittsburgh-bridge-collapses-b91476e4d1dc1c7839bd0c39e7be186e
They are using the public money in some more important stuff, like hire their cousins to teach people about some bias and other more important stuff.
ReplyDeleteWhy was this bridge not condemned and closed off to (heavy) traffic?
ReplyDeleteBilly, because then you'd have 14,500 drivers a day pissed off when they go to vote.
ReplyDeleteBetter to promote(spend the money) on high profile, news worthy projects that make people smile... and vote for you.
Of course if they did close and fix the bridge there would be a few saying it was a boondoggle to give some politician's cousin a fat contract, 'cause I drives o'er it e'ryday and it ain't fallen down.
R or D, they all suck.
ReplyDeleteNo amount of money will get passed to fix everything, but at least the current administration is actually trying to pass something to build/fix things, instead of tearing shit down for their rich friends. How many R's actually voted for the bill? I bet it was zero
ReplyDeletewell, they did try to build a border fence....
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