I’ve been to several 3rd world sh**hole countries. What little infrastructure they have IS crumbling. Not here.
Nancy Pelosi needs those crumbs!!!
Upstate NY.
California’s infrastructure is crumbling. I couldn’t believe the state of the roadways the last I drive there. Given the tax rates in California, you’d think the streets would be paved in gold. I guess it’s one way for the greenies to ensure people limit their driving...
Some northern states are in bad shape. Through their own fault I will add - plenty of dishonest politicians.
Unions don’t help either.
A lot of what makes up the infrastructure is not government owned and operated.
The electrical grid and pipelines are part of that privately owned infrastructure.
Some states do have road and bridge issues.
That has more to do with states spending the money on other things.
Very true.
And if we boot half the illegals we should boot, we’ll have a lot less congestion from the roads to hospitals and schools.
Then we can simply use our current spending level to upgrade what we have, rather than primarily engage in expanding capacity.
Always follow the money. Example: South Carolina recently increased their gas tax after pleas about crumbling roads. The end result is spending on new roads, not needed repairs.
100 bridges in each congressional district are identified as crumbling. That is 43,500 bridges nationally.
At some point some idiot will drive an over-loaded truck on one of these bridges and subsequently lives will be lost.
How much money should be spend to fix 43,500 bridges to prevent this loss of life? Should it be equal to the amount of money we spent to send someone to the backside of the moon?
Should it equal the money spent on fighting the flue outbreak?
Should it equal the money in a tax cut?
Should we spare no expense until all bridges and all infrastructure is above average?
Its a common cliche, but not as bad as - “We need to spend more on public education, its for the children, the future of our nation!”
If you have ever driven through or around Seattle, you would beg to differ. The roads are so bad around here it is embarrassing. On I-5, as it goes through Seattle, exposed rebar can be seen in a number of places, and in many places, you think you are driving on a washboard. But then this state (USSR-WA) is run by liberals, so they do not care about roads and real people. And they have no clue as to how to accomplish anything real.
Everyone goes into a panic over infrastructure spending here. The fact is that it is crumbling. And the east coast is a freaking embarrassment to America.
Trump said it best. Go to any airport of any other modern nation in the world. Then go to JFK, DC, etc.
They are trash level and 1970s at best.
Same for the roads.
We have wasted too much money on pointless middle eastern wars.
Cold country is harder on roads/bridges/tunnels/rails than warm country - make globull warming a fact and we could save tons of money.....I busted 2 tires on a trip to Upstate NY last year and all the potholes were from Cincinnati and north ...
The entire swamp is pothole-infested roads. If there is a smooth road some corrupt contractor will cut it up, and repave it poorly so that it craters immediately.
My son and DIL did a 10 day road trip from the east coast to AZ last year and made a point to get off the interstates and drive through cities and towns along the way.
The named their trip the Great American Infrastructure Fail tour.
Here’s a SIMPLE fix: States keep their $$$ (and that which would go to Fedzilla) and spend it on that which the citizens deem are important.
Wow-wow w/ other States as needed for interstate needs.
VOILA!
Writer must live in NYC or WDC and uses public transportation.
The writer has obviously never driven through the potholes in Baltimore that have street names.
I have been to places in Florida and Texas with world-class infrastructure. But recently, I have driven through New York City, particularly the Bronx and vic. of LGA in Queens. It’s terrible infrastructure, and even worse off of the main highways. Same goes for Buffalo. Actually, Buffalo may even be worse.
Any construction that is NOT 'prevailing wage' will cost considerably less. Prevailing Wage is a union tactic that adds BILLIONS to the cost of construction in the USA.
(Someone from the union will now tell us why it's okay to pay so much.)