Just wait, next Truthdoesntmatter will be demanding a Congresional investigation to determine when Bush knew and ordered this murder of innocent american citizens. And Care4all will be along soon to demand why we just can not connect the dots.
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You have got to be kidding. The money spent in Iraq is what caused the 35W bridge to collapse? Give me fucking break and get a clue while you're at it. Again the bridge was last checked just last year and no structural deficiencies were found. Can you not accept that sometimes bad things just happen and they aren't anybodies fault.
I knew the left would blame the right for this somehow. I just didn't think it would take under 4 hours.
And not to nitpick but please learn the correct spelling of the city would ya
You are aware not one penny of the money spent in Iraq would have ever been raised or spent on bridgesin the US? Your claim is absolute horseshit.
you really have a problem with english, don't you? where did ANYONE suggest that the war in Iraq is what "caused" this bridge to collapse? TM suggests that the chronic problems with infrastructure around the country could have been addressed to a measurable degree of improvement if we could have spent the money flushed down the toilet in Iraq on such domestic issues. Do you really disagree with that?
We have wasted more money in Iraq than it would take to fix this problem.
Its called bad priorities.
We should be rebuilding America not Iraq.
so you are saying that bridges are never built with federal money? even if they go nowhere?
I wonder who built the interstate highway system?
of COURSE not.are you saying that if not for iraq....all the freeways would be repaved.....
Just wait, next Truthdoesntmatter will be demanding a Congresional investigation to determine when Bush knew and ordered this murder of innocent american citizens. And Care4all will be along soon to demand why we just can not connect the dots.
I have to say that, while I am not surprised by the inferential tone of some of the posts in this thread, I find the overall tone sad and pathetic. People are missing, severely injured, and dead, try not to lose sight of that fact. Wouldn't be nice if just once the bodies were cold before someone tried to lay a tragedy at the feet of this administration?
You know, some times shit just happens.
Conditions
As of 2003, 27.1% of the nation's bridges (160,570) were structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, an improvement from 28.5% in 2000. In fact, over the past 12 years, the number of bridge deficiencies has steadily declined from 34.6% in 1992 to 27.1% in 2003. The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) strategic plan states that by 2008, less than 25% of the nation's bridges should be classified as deficient. If that goal were met, 1 in 4 bridges in the nation would still be deficient. There were 590,750 bridges in the United States in 2000; however, one in three urban bridges (31.2% or 43,189) was classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, much higher than the national average. In contrast, 25.6% (118,381) of rural bridges were classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
A structurally deficient bridge is closed or restricted to light vehicles because of its deteriorated structural components. While not necessarily unsafe, these bridges must have limits for speed and weight. A functionally obsolete bridge has older design features and, while it is not unsafe for all vehicles, it cannot safely accommodate current traffic volumes, and vehicle sizes and weights. These restrictions not only contribute to traffic congestion, they pose such major inconveniences as school busses or emergency vehicles taking lengthy detours. It is estimated that it will cost $9.4 billion per year for 20 years to eliminate all bridge deficiencies. The annual investment required to prevent the bridge investment backlog from increasing is estimated at $7.3 billion. Present funding trends of state departments of transportation call into question future progress on addressing bridge deficiencies.
Adding to these problems is the inability of the Administration and Congress to reauthorize the nation's Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21), which has now had six extensions since the program expired on September 30, 2003the inability of the Administration and Congress to reauthorize the nation's Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21), which has now had six extensions since the program expired on September 30, 2003. The progress made in the TEA-21, which authorized $218 billion for the nation's highway and transit programs in 2001, is beginning to slip as America continues to shortchange funding for much-needed road and bridge repairs.
Even with uncertain funding due to the lack of a federal transportation funds reauthorization bill, additional revenues from state and local governments have begun to make an impact on bridge projects in all 50 states. Total bridge expenditures by all levels of government for capital outlays (including system preservation and system expansion) was at $8.8 billion in 2003.
http://www.asce.org/reportcard/2005/page.cfm?id=22
This is just the bridges folks, its the cost of tax cuts.
No Tax cut is worth these peoples lives and no false outrage for silence which only honors the people who refused to take care of the problem in the first place.
Conditions
As of 2003, 27.1% of the nation's bridges (160,570) were structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, an improvement from 28.5% in 2000. In fact, over the past 12 years, the number of bridge deficiencies has steadily declined from 34.6% in 1992 to 27.1% in 2003. The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) strategic plan states that by 2008, less than 25% of the nation's bridges should be classified as deficient. If that goal were met, 1 in 4 bridges in the nation would still be deficient. There were 590,750 bridges in the United States in 2000; however, one in three urban bridges (31.2% or 43,189) was classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, much higher than the national average. In contrast, 25.6% (118,381) of rural bridges were classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
A structurally deficient bridge is closed or restricted to light vehicles because of its deteriorated structural components. While not necessarily unsafe, these bridges must have limits for speed and weight. A functionally obsolete bridge has older design features and, while it is not unsafe for all vehicles, it cannot safely accommodate current traffic volumes, and vehicle sizes and weights. These restrictions not only contribute to traffic congestion, they pose such major inconveniences as school busses or emergency vehicles taking lengthy detours. It is estimated that it will cost $9.4 billion per year for 20 years to eliminate all bridge deficiencies. The annual investment required to prevent the bridge investment backlog from increasing is estimated at $7.3 billion. Present funding trends of state departments of transportation call into question future progress on addressing bridge deficiencies.
Adding to these problems is the inability of the Administration and Congress to reauthorize the nation's Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21), which has now had six extensions since the program expired on September 30, 2003the inability of the Administration and Congress to reauthorize the nation's Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21), which has now had six extensions since the program expired on September 30, 2003. The progress made in the TEA-21, which authorized $218 billion for the nation's highway and transit programs in 2001, is beginning to slip as America continues to shortchange funding for much-needed road and bridge repairs.
Even with uncertain funding due to the lack of a federal transportation funds reauthorization bill, additional revenues from state and local governments have begun to make an impact on bridge projects in all 50 states. Total bridge expenditures by all levels of government for capital outlays (including system preservation and system expansion) was at $8.8 billion in 2003.
http://www.asce.org/reportcard/2005/page.cfm?id=22
This is just the bridges folks, its the cost of tax cuts.
No Tax cut is worth these peoples lives and no false outrage for silence which only honors the people who refused to take care of the problem in the first place.
You don't even read what you post do you? I suggest basic math skills are lacking in your case. This piece clearly states that things are being worked on and getting better. Further, you moron, bridges take YEARS to become unviable. The problem exists because DEMS controlled congres from 1952 until 1994 and did NOT address the problem. Since the republicans took over things have gotten better.
More importantly this is NOT a matter to lay at the feet of ANY president, it is congress that is the problem, and the Dems TOOK money away from road maintainance as your previous link clearly showed from 1990 to 1996 the dems took almost a quarter of the gas tax to spend on NONE road things.
Your inability to read, lack of reasoning ability and general idiocy tell me your a kid or immature. Or maybe your just dumb as a box of rocks.
So the fact that Republicans have called for tax cuts as their main issue for the last twenty years has had no effect on this issue?
The fact that the R congress who just left office refused to renew TEA-21 for the entire time they were in office had no effect on the issue?
Remember Democrats always want to waste money and raise taxes as Rs always seem to say.
THIS is the effect of tax cuts.
You ignore the infrastructure to get a tax cut.