The first dollar in any transportation budget -must- be allocated to maintaining the current infrastructure SO BRIDGES JUST DON’T FALL FROM THE SKY.
Roads are money loosing too.
It appears the bridge was being tended to.
Why do you think one thing is causal of the other?
I sat on the Ambassador bridge for more than an hour this past weekend waiting to get back to Michigan from Canada — one lane for cars, and one lane for huge semis. It was very disturbing sitting there as the bridge shook, while I inched slowly forward. Too much time to think what I would do if we started plunging into the Detroit river below. Got over my anxiety when I realized I would be just plain dead upon impact.
YOu are so right - where are the priorities in these local govt’s. People need to start going to these meetings and give them Hell and vote them out if things don’t change.