Posted on 01/28/2022 5:55:57 AM PST by Vigilanteman
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Pittsburgh Public Schools has informed families that several schools will be moving to remote learning today following a bridge collapse in the East End.
“Due to the impact of a bridge collapse in the East End and high call-offs among bus drivers, all K-5, K-8 and 6-8 and Special Schools will transition to remote learning,” Pittsburgh Public Schools Director of Public Relations Ebony Pugh told KDKA in an email.
High schools and 6-12 schools will continue in-person learning.
The district will still operate on a two-hour delay schedule.
However, Pittsburgh Public Schools transportation is canceled for those schools and no grab-and-go meal service will be available today.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburgh.cbslocal.com ...
I saw the headline and thought it was the Babylon Bee......
Why would unionized bus drivers call off their routes?
Aren't unions supposed to make everything work better?
The bridge collapse is only one route. Find another.
And no grab and go lunches?!
What next, forcing the kids to have to order their own take out delivery service?
Or, GAHHH ... forcing them to learn how to fend for themselves and learn how to microwave?!
Nah, that would be too white of the Pittsburgh School System.
Why not????
Biden’s build back broken bill was all going to fund “social infrustructure” anyway. Even if it passed, they never would have fixed a bridge like this.
School funding for remote dumbing? Yes. It could have funded that
We are literally living in the same setting that Ayn Rand used when she wrote "Atlas Shrugged."
Who is John Galt?
Far be it from Dems to ever stage an event to garner support for a bill...
I assume that you have never lived in Pittsburgh. There probably is another route but it would probably take forever and day. Between, construction, accidents and the tunnels always being backed up I doubt another route is feasible for most.
Infrastructure Investments, not this SH!T again. First off, one actually has to use the infrastructure investments for actual INFRASTRUCTURE, not midnight basketball, social programs, new paved road in front of mayor’s house, and other assorted DEMOCRAT graft and corruption. Hope no one was hurt.
Democrats need to have issues like this dropped on their heads loudly and often.
Someone, please pull the maintenance and inspection records. Bet there are HUGE gaps of suspiciously missing data. Also bet the County Engineer is just another Democrat @#&$^%# !!!!
Who is John Galt?
Hi. You beat me to it. A lot of us have been asking who is John Galt now for several years. Actually, beginning in the Obama years.
There is a pothole on Main Street. Go to remote learning.
First of all there are alternate routes both north and south of the park. I figured this out and I live 3000 miles away in Oregon. Second of all, Biden has no money to give the city to fix the bridge. All he can do is create more debt, on top of monumental debt. So Biden should go back home, if he can find his way, and let Pittsburg and Pennsylvania fund the repair of their bridge. .
Pittsburgh is very hilly and 700 bridges in 55 square miles of area. It is very difficult if not impossible in some instances to travel if one area is blocked.
There is a major difference between visiting neighborhood streets in the Midwest and a hilly city bisected by many rivers. I fly into the (nearly empty) airport and drive on freeways after rush hour between businesses.
No where near the same as when I would drive into the neighborhood schools to visit an end user. I always planned extra time in case I got there when a bell rang, and I would plan my trips to arrive when the students were in class. I won little business in the city proper because I was the wrong color company.
When visiting the older East Coast cities I almost needed a local guide. I would allow my NYC rep to drive the rental car with equipment (he wouldn't bring his own car into the city) and be amazed how inventive they are at building parking garages with lifts. No wonder they were $45 to $60 an hour for parking.
Who runs Pittsburg? Democrats. Did they spend money on inspectors or on useless projects? Looks like their inspectors are either lacking or non existent. Now I know it’s hard to tell when a bridge is about to fail. And accidents happen. But the fact that a Democrat runs the city and Democrats have run this city for many years, they will all blame Trump for the failure and that Joe will rebuild it. Even though Joe won’t do anything, and the city won’t check the other bridges and state funds already allocated will rebuild the bridge. And the Hollywood style politics with actors and actresses will go on, with the peanut gallery press who will fawn over Joe Biden and his wonderful deeds, even though Joe almost got us into a nuclear war with Russia. I wonder, was the bridge sabotaged jus for Joe to make an appearance?
Turd World America.
How many of these 700 bridges are under local control? Under state control for maintenance?
It looks like another example of a city shirking their responsibility for maintenance of streets and bridges, then crying poverty when an infrastructure collapse happens.
From the looks of it this was a city bridge, not a state bridge or federal bridge.
When I35 collapses in Minneapolis, that is a state-federal partnership.
When our little bridge washed out in a rainstorm 15 years ago, it was on a county road and the county paid to rebuild it.
But yes, the county did apply for both state and federal emergency funds ... some of which were from future years’ outlays. Don’t get us started on the gordian knot that has become government funding in America.
Granted, some of them are highly inconvenient. But the point is that the Pittsburgh public school system has bus resources to give the older kids (who need it the least) in person learning, but not the younger and special ed kids who need it the most.
At any given time, one or more of the 700+ bridges in Pittsburgh are closed for demolition, replacement, renovation or whatever. People find ways to get around.
This particular bridge on the east end carries a lot of traffic (or did) and will be particularly challenging. But the Pittsburgh Public School System has already made their choice . . . stupid as it it!
Obummers shovel ready jobs snagged close to a trillion to fix all this stuff. Wonder where all that cash went?
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