Posted on 09/27/2021 3:36:11 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Pennsylvania may have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make significant progress on a long list of needed infrastructure projects if the House passes the $1 trillion plan approved by the Senate and makes billions in federal dollars available to the state. Officials can’t squander this chance to upgrade roads, bridges, dams and other infrastructure areas statewide.
In state-by-state estimates released by the White House, Pennsylvania stands to gain — over a five-year period — $11.3 billion in federal highway funding, $2.8 billion for public transit and $1.6 billion for bridge replacement.
There’s also $171 million to add charging stations for electric vehicles, and nearly $100 million for expanded broadband coverage.
Some might not think of broadband as an important part of infrastructure, but in today’s connected world, the need is real and immediate. That was made clear by the turn to online learning for most public schools during the coronavirus pandemic and the reality that students in too many areas, mostly rural, simply could not make an internet connection. The federal funding is expected to provide access to an estimated 394,000 Pennsylvanians.
State officials should be prioritizing how and where those federal dollars will be spent if made available. The areas of need are many. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), in its most recent Pennsylvania report card from 2018, gave the state a C-minus overall for the condition of its infrastructure.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
And the people whoown the Pittsburgh newspaper should have thier taxes raised to pay for it.
And most of the money will be squandered on non-infrastructure projects.
PING!
Don’t be fooled. More money equals more corruption. Nothing else comes of it.
Could be a payoff for suppressing vote fraud investigations.
Potholes and crumbling bridges will remain.
Instead of parroting Democrat party talking points, the Pittsburgh post gazette editorial board might want to wear down a little shoe leather and find out where all the tax and fee increases went the last time they said they were for infrastructure. Gas taxes? That’s for infrastructure. Turnpike toll hikes? Infrastructure. Natural gas drilling taxes? More of that sweet sweet infrastructure. Meanwhile the same stretches of certain highways get repaved every five years and the rest of the state gets swallowed up in potholes.
ESPECIALLY with a million army ready enemy infiltrators about to be welcomed by the commie wolf
This is not an opportunity. It is a trap. The cost of falling into the trap is... hyperinflation, one-party rule, massive corruption, and the end of the Republic. Is that what they want? There is no free lunch, but there certainly is a false one, that is extremely expensive.
Philly has had over 400 murders this year. How about hiring some cops and building a prison.
Yes, what happened to Obamas spending?
Most of the money will find its way into democRAT Party and leftist union coffers, and a few years from now the infrastructure will be unimproved, just as it was after Obunga’s non-existent shovel ready projects.
Ah, the media/liberal/eddikashun & studies majors/NEA, “What’s in it for us? Let’s do it.” approach.
It's not a trap. It's a payoff for their part in the Great Heist of 2020.
Absolutely, but what are we going to do about it?
Quid pro quo for not doing an audit?
I’m sure this newspaper will hold the Rat candidates accountable in PA next November, when they fail to pass any bills anytime soon because Pelousy, Schumer and Sleepy Joe are all incompetent. Holding my breathe . . . now.
"Shovel ready jobs"? Right...
The last democrat infrastructure con was Obama's SHOVEL READY JOBS lie!
https://www.cagw.org/thewastewatcher/shovel-ready-jobs-swindle
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-no-such-thing-as-shovel-ready-projects/
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/press-release-president-obamas-not-so-shovel-ready-jobs
Wake me up when we send a lying, crooked politician to prison!!
What fraction will be skimmed by the bottom feeding scum dwelling in the swamp?
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