Posted on 09/22/2011 7:06:57 AM PDT by maggief
You know all those rusting bridges that President Obama wants to spend billions more dollars repairing to allegedly stimulate the economy?
He's headed out to one today which he's described as a "bridge that needs repair between Ohio and Kentucky that's on one of the busiest trucking routes in North America." It is on a busy trucking route, spanning the Ohio River between Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati.
It's the Brent Spence Bridge. It doesn't really need repairs. It's got decades of good life left in its steel spans. It's just overloaded. The bridge was built to handle 85,000 cars and trucks a day, which seemed like a lot back during construction in the Nixon era.
Today, the bridge sort of handles more than 150,000 vehicles a day with frequent jam-ups.Obama speaks to the American Legion 8-30-11
So, plans are not to repair or replace the Brent Spence Bridge. But to build another bridge nearby to ease the loads.
But here's the problem, as John Merline graphically notes here, that could screw up all those envisioned photo op shots of the Democrat and the traffic:
The president's jobs bill is designed for "immediate" highway spending.
And the new $2.3 billion Cincy bridge is not scheduled to even start construction for probably four years, long after Republicans have scheduled the Obama presidency for completion.
And without delays, it wouldn't be finished until 2022, when no one will be counting Obama's rounds of golf.
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You are better off going to Shrine Circus than watching anything done by those Idiots in the White Hut!!!
You can't make this stuff up.
Every place that Obama visits seems to fail. There have been many. Solyndra is perhaps the best known. But wasn't Biden in Ohio this week, in the neighborhood of another business that Obama went to that has failed and closed? IRRC, it was Cardinal Fastener and Specialty Co., and Obama visited there touting wind power back around his innauguration time. It seems like there have been several other businesses that have failed after an Obama visit.
I hate to bet on disasters, but is there a pool for how long after this visit from Obama before this bridge collapses.
Reuters Pictures 16 hours ago U.S. President Barack Obama (R) walks past former U.S. President Bill Clinton before speaking during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, September 21, 2011.
We have three bridges in Maryland that I know of in the same condition as this bridge.
Nothing wrong with the bridges , just overloaded, because the state hasn’t built any new ones.
Too busy building stadiums in Baltimore.
Same in Ohio!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704461304576216330349497852.html?mod=e2tw
Mike Brown told the Enquirer that he needed this new stadium to field a competitive team. Can someone ask him where that team is?
$540 Million!
“”You are better off going to Shrine Circus than watching anything done by those Idiots in the White Hut!!!””
Like Orin Hatch said last night on Greta - “they don’t know what they’re doing.”
BTW, does anyone have a clue to why the daily schedule of “president speech” on whitehouse.gov refers to Andrews AFB as “Joint Base Andrews” one day and the next as “Andrews AFB.” The schedule reads that he and the first ??? left Joint Base Andrews on Monday enroute to NYC and returned on Wednesday to Andrews AFB.
I believe Orin Hatch is right - but we’re the ones who haven’t been afraid to say it!!
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