Where America’s Bridges Are Crumbling [CHART]

Surivalnomics ^ | 04/06/2021

[minnesota_bound]

This was all fixed by obama and biden back in 2009.

[Seruzawa]

I was wondering how long it would take the shills to come out.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I really hope that when they build these bridges that they don’t just rush in and do a replacement. Instead they should invite architects, artists, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, etc. to provide their input so that these bridges will be bridges to tomorrow and not bridges to the patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and transphobic past.

[beancounter13]

So if it will only cost $42B to repair or replace the structurally deficient bridges, then where is the the other $1,950B going to be spent?

Doesn’t anybody ask tough questions anymore?

[A strike]

No multi trillion dollar spending can repair our mentally deficient “POTUS” which is a whole worse problem.

[Salamander]

/laughs in Western Maryland

[hinckley buzzard]

The I 35 bridge was an engineering failure. The rest are targeted by the (ahem) bridge builders industry. Naturally they think every bridge in the country needs to be replaced. It’s called job security. But ask yourself, how many bridges do you know of that have actually “crumbled” in the last 20 years.

[Salamander]

They ain’t kiddin’ about WV.

522 across the river is gamble, every time.

[are we *supposed* to see the seams and rebar sticking up like that?!?]

[HollyB]

That’s what I thought too.

[HollyB]

I recall 1.

[montag813]

Here comes the tsunami of media propaganda to buttress the Biden mega pork bill

[Envisioning]

A Major Infrastructure Bill Clears Congress The House and Senate send President Obama the largest transportation package in more than a decade, costing $305 billion over five years.

RUSSELL BERMAN

DECEMBER 4, 2015

.....guess they ran out of money.

[Deplorable American1776]

I-84 viaduct west of Hartford is a problem. They are thinking of tunneling it and fix the I-84/I-91 interchange/Mixmaster problem, freeing up lots of riverfront land in Hartford and East Hartford. I’d love to see that fix.

[gitmo]

But are they shovel ready?

[polymuser]

You have great vision, FRiend!

We should have black BLM bridges, pink feminist bridges, rainbow LGBTQ+ bridges, green-white-red Mexican bridges, plant-covered green bridges, Lego youth bridges...

[polymuser]

“Naturally they think every bridge in the country needs to be replaced. It’s called job security.”

Just like coders say every app needs to be updated. It’s called job security.

[polymuser]

“Here comes the tsunami of media propaganda to buttress the Biden mega pork bill.”

“We need good bridges to guarantee people can get their annual vaccinations without danger!”

[dforest]

That money is going to go to the same place that a trillion dollar Obama infrastructure went. Down the memory hole and into private politicians bank accounts, bribe money, DNC bucks, blackmail, illegal aliens, and foreign entities to be laundered and returned to Biden admin.

Everything will still be crumbling because who wants to sped good bucks on shitholes where the peons live.

[CoastWatcher]

So when the report came out 2007; Oregon took it upon itself to fix/repair all the bridges in the state.

So the State that acts responsible to a crisis get NOTHING; and the States who act responsibly get Billions.

And people wonder why the States do not fix anything.