A Pittsburgh bridge collapsed early Friday,
according to authorities, just hours before
President Biden was scheduled to visit
the city to talk about infrastructure.
Washington Post,
by
Timothy Bella
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
1/28/2022 8:47:27 AM
A Pittsburgh bridge collapsed early Friday, according to authorities, just hours before President Biden was scheduled to visit the city to talk about infrastructure. No injuries were immediately reported, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety, which reported a “confirmed bridge collapse” at around 6:50 a.m. A photo from KDKA shows at least four vehicles, including a Port Authority bus, on the bridge near Forbes and Braddock avenues, which splits the Point Breeze, Regent Square and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. Another vehicle is shown dangling near the edge of the collapsed bridge. Police, fire and EMS personnel are responding to the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 1/28/2022 8:52:18 AM (No. 1053521)
Convenient, but not likely sabotage. The 'Burg has many aging steel bridges. Winter road salt takes its toll.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 1/28/2022 9:01:37 AM (No. 1053533)
Just like the Biden Administration
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
red1066 1/28/2022 9:15:22 AM (No. 1053549)
Let me know if Biteme is on the bridge at the time it collapses. Pa. has a lot of bridges that are falling apart along with its roads.
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wilarrbie 1/28/2022 9:18:56 AM (No. 1053557)
Makes ya wonder what they been doing with all the billions and billions Transportation Dept gets every budget (not to mention "shovel ready" measures they dole out when they need headlines) that's supposed to take care of bridges and roads. How much has Pa received in past 5 years? What did they do with it? Bridge inspection report?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
franq 1/28/2022 9:41:40 AM (No. 1053587)
^^^^Quoth Hussein with a smirk, "We found out those jobs weren't as shovel-ready as we thought."
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bighambone 1/28/2022 9:48:29 AM (No. 1053599)
What a “coincidence” a Pittsburg bridge “collapses” hours before Biden arrives to push the already passed so-called federal infrastructure law that has some money it it to replace or repair or replace bridges.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/28/2022 9:49:54 AM (No. 1053601)
Look for Biden to beat the drum for another trillion dollar 'infrastructure' bill.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 1/28/2022 9:52:51 AM (No. 1053607)
How apropos for Brandon. Such a rich metaphor for his so-called "Presidency".
P.S. I threw up a little in mouth when I typed that.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 1/28/2022 10:13:56 AM (No. 1053635)
Tucker had a segment on the "Infrastructure Bill" last night and Pothole Pete Buttigieg explaining how the $1.2 trillion dollars would be spent. Apparently Mr. Kamala Harris is involved and they explained that it's all about the "equity."
They are committed to identifying racist roads and bridges then educating and hiring members of "marginalized communities" to fix them.
So, if your road or bridge is declared racist, and you've got about ten years to wait for the deserving "People of Color" to earn their engineering degree's, your grandchildren may just have a nice new bridge to walk across because all cars have been outlawed. Oh yes, the "infrastructure bill" is also all about "Climate Change" equity.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 1/28/2022 10:22:14 AM (No. 1053648)
Ok..... so its been known for 11 years that the bridge was in poor condition. And they did what???
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/28/2022 10:47:50 AM (No. 1053691)
I live in pittsburgh and taxes have often been increased over the years to take care of "infrastructure", yet nothing ever gets fixed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/28/2022 10:48:09 AM (No. 1053692)
"Uhmmm...is anyone gonna DO something about this, Iron X beams are rusted all of the way THOUGH!"....3 years ago.
https://twitter.com/vincelaboon/status/1487076075574370305/photo/1
Uhmm, not real soon, we have been busy building hike/bike trails, one directly under the bridge in fact, renaming streets for Equity, installing charging stations, mass transit lanes next to bike lanes, studying more, vastly more expensive fast rail for our "City Folks"...in fact our various NEW studies of old studies has us employing soooo many people, companies, and colleges helping plan our Utopian future that there is NO money left to actually fix anything old at this point.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/28/2022 10:49:29 AM (No. 1053694)
Oh...we decided to build "Sound Walls" instead...hundreds of miles of sound walls.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Debrawr 1/28/2022 11:00:02 AM (No. 1053700)
Impossible! Pete Butt-hisface told us that CLIMATE CHANGE is infrastructure!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
WinterParker 1/28/2022 11:11:37 AM (No. 1053713)
Maybe it's good riddance to bad rubbish. The bridge was no doubt a white nationalist.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ribicon 1/28/2022 12:22:32 PM (No. 1053793)
The city and the state collect plenty of taxes to maintain their roads and bridges. It's not "a federal problem" if they waste that money elsewhere, except to the extent that city and state officials are liable for criminal negligence and fraud for failing to do their jobs.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
joew9 1/28/2022 12:30:58 PM (No. 1053803)
Most infrastructure failure is because states are not keeping up their own infrastructure because they spend their money elsewhere. So they want the feds to come in and fix their failing infrastructure so they can keep funneling their tax money to their pet projects. Except when fed money comes in the infrastructure doesn't get fixed and the money gets spent anyway. Look how much money was poured into Louisiana to fix the levies so they wouldn't fail. And year after year little got done and the money disappeared and more money was granted and finally the levies failed.
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Most states tax gasoline...to be used for roads etc. LA does. Seems like not a penny goes into the "gas trust fiund." So as in LA so goes PA perhaps? Feds do the same thing. Taxes go into"other funds." So-called infrastructure does not exist. No money. PA's roads and bridges disintegrate. So does LA roads. I think TX is one state that puts the tax money collected from gas tax into their roads. Pretty good roads in TX.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 1/28/2022 12:57:52 PM (No. 1053857)
We had a small concrete bridge over a secondary river in the KC area, about 100 feet long or so, near my former place of work suddenly drop 6" at one end, making a dangerous drop one way and a tire-destroying steel step the other way. The bridge was closed, and an announcement made at work because many people came that way to work.
Another engineer and I decided to walk down at lunch the 1/4 mile to inspect it. Orange cones blocking the road stopped traffic. We went down the hill beside it and saw the huge 24" or so tall steel I-beams had corroded entirely through in a vertical line, letting the beam crush down and partially drop at one end. The cause was the water drain off of the road surface channeled the road salt laden water all winter to drain right down the steel beam, causing it to corrode severely in a 4 inch wide stripe. The ~3/4 inch thick center portion of the beam hadn't corroded through in a year, it had take a decade or two of NO inspection, or at least no competent inspection. A simple extention pipe on the drain outlet would have kept the salt water off of the beam, and painting the beam with corrosion resisting paint every 10 years would have gone a long way to make the bridge last for a century.
But, the city or county or state, whoever was "responsible" for that bridge did NOTHING and after a few decades of total neglect, a bridge that had to have cost at least several hundred thousand dollars to replace was destroyed. A little bit of maintenance would have extended the life many decades.
This is INCOMPETENCE and uncaring by the people we entrust with our public infrastructure. Bridges uninspected and unmaintained and unrepaired WILL eventually fall down. That is as certain as the sun rising in the east. They collect the taxes for "infrastructure" and do NOT use them wisely.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/28/2022 1:25:59 PM (No. 1053905)
The truth is about 8 years ago we were hit with the "Corbett Transportation Tax". That was a tax that Gov Corbett wanted and got from our Republican legislators. This tax increased our gas at the pump by 40 cents per gallon and it was to be used for the repair of our roads and bridges in Pennsylvania. The truth is this tax was used in Philadelphia transportation. You know all those electric buses that were purchased and junked because the heavy batteries fell out because they were too damn heavy. Also, people can ride the bus all day for a buck. We in PA are still wondering what happened to ALL THOSE FUNDS. Now they want to charge us when we drive over most bridges in PA. This is crazy. We were screwed by the same republican legislators that are running for reelection. As for Gov Corbett, he was a one term governor.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/28/2022 1:34:06 PM (No. 1053925)
If they unscrew enough bolts it will fall.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 1/28/2022 2:06:00 PM (No. 1053971)
It's the AlGore Curse 2.0. Remember every time AlGore tried to hold a Global Warming Conference the weather turned colder and rainy/snowy/icy/horrible???
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Kafka2 1/28/2022 5:04:10 PM (No. 1054129)
The Infrastructure bill was passed early last year. Where was our Secretary of Transportation all this?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/28/2022 5:06:41 PM (No. 1054133)
Thousands of bridges, thousands of Biden's talk venues? Bridge built in the 70s. THAT one collapses. What are the odds? Hmmmm!
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Rumblehog 1/28/2022 9:55:22 PM (No. 1054352)
So, how long has the CORRUPT State of PA known about this deteriorating Bridge, yet spent Tax money on OTHER things instead? Where is the sense of safety priorities in that State? Are you waiting for Southern States to pay for your infrastructure through our Federal Taxes? We need a Constitutional Amendment ending the State Income Tax Deduction on Federal Taxes, since idiot Demonrats will always overturn the will of the South.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 1/28/2022 10:46:16 PM (No. 1054380)
I’m sure we all know whose pockets get lined when money flows in to any state budget.
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A metaphor for his presidency. Bridge appears to have fallen into a ravine.