[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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Column: How billboards warning motorists of I-80 bridge safety concerns created one of 2019′s biggest local political stories

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

How the creepy-looking I-80 Bridges of Will County — I drove over the westbound one in 2014 — stoked a public campaign to support Illinois’ latest infrastructure program.

PING.

[tomkat]

Construction unions paid to display the messages

Their concern for the public's safety is heartwarming, ehh ?

< snort >

[grey_whiskers]

Where were they when the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi collapsed in Minneapolis?

[G Larry]

"How Democrats use fear to generate revenue"

(in case you think there's a difference between Unions, Dems, and the MSM)

[TigersEye]

That’s kind of thuggish demagoguery by the unions isn’t it?

I guess thugs are gonna thug.

[TigersEye]

FWIW FR’s software has been upgraded and there are no longer limitations on thread title length.

[grey_whiskers]

Speaking of safety, this is why I worked from home today.

https://twitter.com/DemonBob_Badman/status/1211295163055624197

[lightman]

The highway engineers and construction companies keep pimping this "structurally defecient" and "functionally obsolete" Bovine Excrement to scare folks into clamoring for higher fuel taxes, etc...in plain words, to fund their unemployment insurance from the public trough.

Once and for all:

"Structurally deficient" ≠ UNSAFE
"Functionally obsolete" ≠ UNSAFE

"Tigger and Jagular" explains it all.

[Chickensoup]

in maine when the state wants more money for roads and infrastructure they stop painting the metal parts of the bridges and it looks all rusty with surface rust.