Our Bridges are Failing

[longknife]

I’ve posted this before and the President has talked about, promising to try to get a package through Congress to fix this as part of his Infrastructure Initiative.


Our 2018 budget included $55.9 billion in foreign aid.


Just a small percentage of that could go a long way to fixing things.

There are 614,000 bridges in the U.S., and nearly 1-in-10 of them is falling apart. When Eisenhower signed the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act, establishing a 41,000-mile system of roads and bridges, there was roughly one car for every three people. Today, it’s almost 1-to-1. This influx of vehicles, plus shoddy maintenance, has taxed spans to the brink of collapse. This bridge is the sum of our worst missteps, and how to make them right.


And this article proposes some truly great ideas on how to fix and replace these structures.


Check them out @ Our bridges are failing. Here's how we could fix them.

 

[progressive hunter]

I’ve posted this before and the President has talked about, promising to try to get a package through Congress to fix this as part of his Infrastructure Initiative.


Our 2018 budget included $55.9 billion in foreign aid.


Just a small percentage of that could go a long way to fixing things.

There are 614,000 bridges in the U.S., and nearly 1-in-10 of them is falling apart. When Eisenhower signed the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act, establishing a 41,000-mile system of roads and bridges, there was roughly one car for every three people. Today, it’s almost 1-to-1. This influx of vehicles, plus shoddy maintenance, has taxed spans to the brink of collapse. This bridge is the sum of our worst missteps, and how to make them right.


And this article proposes some truly great ideas on how to fix and replace these structures.


Check them out @ Our bridges are failing. Here's how we could fix them.

its a state issue not a federal one,,,

 

[Manonthestreet]

More vehicles = more tax money...where does it all go, besides shovel rdy jobs alrdy fixed this didnt it

 

[MisterBeale]

The politicians, all of them, in their hearts, are on board with Agenda 2030, or that internationalist mumjumbo.

That calls for moving all people into all the huge metropolises, getting rid of cars, converting all transport to trains, and radically transforming the infrastructure of the planet.

I think the reason they are dragging their heels on a lot of these projects, is they are expecting another great depression, one worse than the Great Depression and last great Recession, one where they will replace the dollar with an international currency and a new transnational government. It will requite the re-location of many people, martial law, AI, robots doing lots of the labor, etc.

A LOT of this infrastructure at that point will be obsolete.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Interesting article on the interplay between local and federal government, when it comes to infrastructure:

Three reasons to think twice about an infrastructure bill