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Posted on 02/22/2022 7:24:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you think risking public safety for political gain is a bridge too far, even for a Democrat politician, you need look no further than Pittsburgh’s City Democrat Councilman Ricky Burgess to dispel any notion of it.
It’s only been less than a month since the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh’s East End neighborhood Jan. 28 collapse, coincidently coinciding with Biden’s already scheduled trip to the city to tout his infrastructure plan.
For Joe Biden, and a beleaguered White House staff, waking up to news of bridge’s falling must’ve seemed like a providential gift for an administration desperate for a break from negative news of the president’s plummeting poll numbers.
No doubt the president was sincere, as everyone else, in his relief that there were no serious injuries or deaths from the bridge failure, but he must’ve also felt at least a tinge of relief to finally have an opportunity for a much-needed photo-op of him looking presidential.
Later that afternoon on the day the bridge collapsed, a serious and stoic Joe Biden proclaimed from the edge of the fallen bridge, his bewilderment to learn, despite being a “Pennsylvania Boy,” that Pittsburgh, the City of Bridges, boasted more bridges than any other city in the world. Neither the enormity of the heaping mess of tangled bridge structure laying in the deep snowy ravine below before him, where joggers and hikers abound in warmer months making frequent use of the trails now hidden beneath the rubble, nor that of the nations crumbling infrastructure in need of replacement daunted Scranton Joe.
Instead, an invigorated Biden would proclaim, “And, we’re going to fix them all, no joke.”
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Only the delusional believe that this massive “infrastructure bill” has anything to do with actual physical structures. Also only the delusional believe that reality challenged Democrats can accomplish anything constructive for the common good.
But I thought the bridge that collapsed wasn’t even on the repair list for the “Infrastructure Bill”?
The Fern Hollow Bridge was deemed unsafe many years ago. There are pictures from three years ago showing the main steel supports rusted through.
Pittsburgh was allocated money for repairs, but diverted those funds to bike paths and green projects instead.
If the people of Pittsburgh do not throw everyone out of office, they deserve to live as serfs and never knowing if they or a loved one will die as a result.
That diversion of money away from “bridge repair” to “green goodies” like bike lanes and walking lanes and enviro iplaques is what SHOULD BE publicized in a rational nation, but - instead - Biden’s mass national press corpse is highlight “Him” instead of “His Party’s Failures”
Giving money to a Democrat is like giving Heroin to a drug addict..........................
It reminds me of the scene from The Great McGinty. The man behind the newly elected Governor McGinty advises him that the state needs a new dam. And you always need more and more concrete for a new dam.
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I do have to say that they are inspecting, and perhaps fixing, the many bridges/overpasses we have here in York County. They sure do mess-up traffic on the busy roads, working on overpasses.
If spending money on bike lanes is so important, why do you almost never see people using them?
Thanks RACPE.
RE: If spending money on bike lanes is so important, why do you almost never see people using them?
I think the rationale is... IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL USE IT.
Pittsburgh Democrat’s transportation infrastructure solution:
More bike lanes!
Pittsburgh has to be one of the worst cities to cycle in, given the monster hills and narrow roads and such. It’s a cyclist death trap.
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