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Pittsburgh bridge's 2016 infrastructure
funding reportedly diverted to bike lanes
and green energy programs

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 1/30/2022 12:43:41 AM

oe Biden and his Democrat allies wasted no time trying to make political hay out of a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh, a city Biden had just arrived in to discuss his infrastructure bill: The collapse happened just hours before President Biden traveled to the area to speak at a previously scheduled event about the $1 trillion infrastructure bill he signed into law last year. "We have been so far behind on infrastructure for so many years it's just mind-boggling," Mr. Biden told a group of elected officials and first responders during a visit to the collapse site. "...We used to be number one in the world."

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Reply 1 - Posted by: snakeoil 1/30/2022 1:08:15 AM (No. 1055404)
There is a sign on the bridge that says the load limit is 26 tons. Still think Stacy Abrams was on that bus.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 1/30/2022 3:29:47 AM (No. 1055420)
Of course politicians diverted infrastructure $$$ to equity projects. God forbid they would fix the bridges. This past week, Butt Pete announced that the trillions of $$$ in the Infrastructure Bill would be directed to traffic cams and other equity projects to deracialize the roads and bridges. Can you say there is corruption in them thare Infrastructure Bills? Yes you can.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Trigger2 1/30/2022 3:52:27 AM (No. 1055423)
Is this surprising? I doubt it. Butt Boy is all in on global warming. I wouldn't be surprised if not one single penny was spent on infrastructure. It'll all go to bike lanes (unnecessary) and global warming (fraud).
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Reply 4 - Posted by: mifla 1/30/2022 4:49:42 AM (No. 1055440)
Someone should ask Jen that since funds for roads have been diverted in the past, why should voters believe the President?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DW626 1/30/2022 6:38:49 AM (No. 1055480)
Well with the winter weather Pittsburgh experiences, the bike lanes certainly make sense.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: BarryNo 1/30/2022 6:55:28 AM (No. 1055489)
This is what I've beed talking about. And you can bet HUGE chunks of the money went into kickbacks and salaries to Democrat toadies. To Democrats, the taxpayer funds BELONG TO THEM. They dont give a piddling damn about where its supposed to go. Look at Social Security!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 1/30/2022 9:12:57 AM (No. 1055601)
Have they found the burn marks from the explosives under the bridge yet? Pittsburgh already had streets too narrow to handle the traffic and local dimwits carved out space for bicycles, which no rider in his right mind would use. There are already hundreds of miles of bike paths around the city which do not put riders into the path of angry motorists. The hills, tunnels and one-way streets make connections impossible.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: 24tea@Mag 1/30/2022 9:24:23 AM (No. 1055611)
Does Joe Biden know anything? The money for the bridge repair was diverted to greeny causes/crap, in other words. Joe’s handlers want this puppet to go down in history as the worst, most stupid US President.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: privateer 1/30/2022 9:48:12 AM (No. 1055632)
'Improvements' for the recreational convenience of soy boy Spandex commandos were more important than your children's safety. Your Commiecrat Party at work.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Jebediah 1/30/2022 9:48:42 AM (No. 1055633)
Only 10% of the "Infrastructure Bill" goes for infrastructure, and I am sure the contracts for that will be given out slowly to political donors in construction and take 40 years to finish....look at Wolman Rink in NYC! WHEN are we going to wake up. And stop voting for those Republicans who went along to get along. (McConnel is a master and we often need him desperately, but he is far from a clean slate. Maliotakis in N,.Y. also voted for the bill, and is back pedaling as fast as she can, on tv constantly re: "good" issues" because she knows she has been tarred.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: czechlist 1/30/2022 9:54:34 AM (No. 1055639)
Federal "infrastructure" $$ should be spent on federal infrastructure not state and local. The city of Pittsburgh is responsible for their bridges. fed $$ means fed control (like bike lanes) and higher fed taxes. local stuff needs local control.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: RussZilla 1/30/2022 9:54:53 AM (No. 1055640)
This looks like the hand of God to me.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: franq 1/30/2022 10:02:20 AM (No. 1055647)
I saw a picture of the jury-rigged cable "repair". Also saw pictures of beam after rusted beam on other bridges. Dems at their finest.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: chance_232 1/30/2022 10:12:50 AM (No. 1055659)
New projects that politicians can crow about are sexy. The new project can be see. Repairs aren't sexy. The bridge that you crossed last year is the same bridge that your crossing this year. The "reason" that we need an infrastructure program is because needed repairs and upgrades have been sacrificed for new sexy projects for decades. Even to so called infrastructure bill only had maybe 20% of the total going to infrastructure. The rest was/is going to new projects. This is how politicians get elected. With new stuff. No politician runs on fixing pot holes, running new sewer lines, repairing bridges and dams.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: wakeupcall 1/30/2022 10:24:57 AM (No. 1055669)
Building back better was never intended to actually repair any infrastructure. It is intended for buying voters and to line the pockets of all the Global Marxist Communist democrats, republicrats GOPe, etc., every time they get the funds approved in a government law.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: earlybird 1/30/2022 10:43:25 AM (No. 1055687)
Which is what would happen with Zhou Biden’s “infrastructure” money. A well known scam.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: moebellini3 1/30/2022 10:51:20 AM (No. 1055696)
All of that money goes right down that same rat hole. And that rat hole is the politicians deep pockets. Billions and trillions of dollars disappear and not one person can account for its whereabouts. Get it..
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Reply 18 - Posted by: DVC 1/30/2022 12:23:26 PM (No. 1055796)
Some of the pix of that bridge showed concrete spalled off of the structure, and a LOT of rebar exposed. That bridge looked really unsafe as hell to me, based on the primary structural components literally crumbling from neglect. Old rebar inside concrete was not coated, so road salt would seep into the porous concrete, corroding the steel very quickly. The corrosion products have a larger volume than the original metal, and this wedges the concrete apart, crack it, letting in more salt water, accelerating the corrosion-cracking process until big chunks of concrete spall off. At that point, the structure is seriously weakened. Where road salt is used, concrete bridge structures have short lifetimes, although coated rebar can improve the durability. Frankly, steel beam construction is more durable in these climates. Of course, you must sandblast and paint your steel beams every 10-15 years, too, or they will corrode. And it is necessary to drain away the salt water so it doesn't go directly onto the beams. A fresh water wash each spring would go a long way to reduce corrosion, too, but the politicians steal money for other pet projects until the infrastructure literally crumbles. And even then, they are gone from office and no blame follows them or even their party.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: mamabear 1/30/2022 1:30:14 PM (No. 1055859)
"funding reportedly diverted to bike lanes and green energy programs" - the same thing reportedly happened in New Orleans, Louisiana with bike lanes built on top of the levees badly in need of repair. 1) There is no requirement that federal funds be spent as allocated. Who follows up? What government entity is punished or experiences a clawback if the funds are misused? 2) We used to make steel in many of our major Northern cities. Infrastructure was easier to maintain when the means to make the repairs was down by the river and the people qualified to do so lived right around the corner.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: ROLFNader 1/31/2022 9:03:08 AM (No. 1056528)
but then again Joe..... Everything is "mind boggling" to you.............
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