Why U.S. Bridges Are In Such Bad Shape
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- America’s bridges are in rough shape. More than a third of the nation’s bridges are in need of repair and over 43,000 are in poor condition and classified as “structurally deficient”. A structurally deficient bridge is one that requires significant maintenance to remain in service. It is often posted with weight limits but is considered safe to use.
Hours ahead of President Biden’s scheduled visit to Pittsburgh in January 2022 to discuss infrastructure, one of the city’s more than 440 bridges collapsed. Ten people were injured including first responders. Another bridge collapsed in Washington State in 2013 and Minneapolis in 2007. And while most of the country’s bridges were designed for a service life of about 50 years the average age of bridges in the U.S. is 44-years. So why are so many of the nation’s bridges in a state of disrepair and what steps are being taken to fix them?
While most of the country’s structures were designed for a service life of about 50 years, the average age of bridges in the U.S. is 44 years. Older bridges with fewer lanes and restricted access can add to congestion impacting commerce and the response time of emergency services.
But after innovations in bridge building, new building materials and additional funding, there are signs of some modest improvement for the nation’s bridge inventory.
In January, Biden announced his administration would distribute $27 billion over the next five years to fix or rebuild thousands of the nation’s bridges. The current estimate to repair all bridges in the U.S. is $125 billion, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Watch the video to learn more.
00:00 - Intro
02:23 - Ch 1. Building bridges is costly
05:45 - Ch 2. Privately owned bridges
08:40 - Ch. 3 - The George Washington Bridge
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Why U.S. Bridges Are In Such Bad Shape
US has funds for wars but not bridges. Learn the lesson from Greek city states which became bankrupt due to chronic wars.
Schemes of corrupt government officials where they have receive kickbacks from deals in non western counties , ukraine was their laundromat. Thats why ukraine are highest mentioned in Panama papers, all that dirty us government money.
We can't even fund schools
Bidens next defense budget is expected to reach $788 billion. Both parties are pro war so voting won't fix it.
@@_Meng_Lan I would need 100 more hours a day for me to be able to repport all this damn bots. Gah
@@Dakidpepe that might be a good thing, seeing what they teach nowdays.
If the government is going to keep borrowing trillions of dollars to keep the government "open" but not use any of those borrowed trillions for infrastructure, then why in the Hell are we paying taxes? Where do our taxes go? It sure isn't to keep the government operating nor infrastructure.
Good question, the funds must be going somewhere!
Pelosi, Wall Street trader of the year 2021. How does she do it? Some kind of magical clairvoyance?
Entitlement programs. Government spends as much money on a homeless person in a year as many of us make in a year.
The vast majority of the newly minted paper flows right into the stock market. Through FED's QE showering the corps, banks and the military industrial complex with trillions of $ through 'aid programs', bail outs, stock buybacks and buying bonds.
Just alone the Trump 2017 tax cuts gave big cooperations 2 trillion dollars
May be stop funding wars and invest in the country.
Amen to that.. All the money we spend on George W. Bush War. we could have Invested in our roads,highways, and bridges and in Transportation all over The United States 🇺🇸 and had lots of money left over to Invest in each big city In The United States 🇺🇸 We could had all this Super Fast Trains going all over the United States!!!
@@barrett7893 yeah and now the Biden war.
No problem. All Biden have to do is print money in trillions. Not enough, another few trillion. Still not enough, a few more trillion. Easy money. Not like others so stupid have to work to make money. Biden only need to print money. So clever. 💶🤑😜💸
@@sootuckchoong7077 it's all administrations that print money. The only president since Reagan who actually ran a surplus was Clinton but that's because Republicans were all over him. After that tax cuts, wars, a pandemic and the Great Recession led Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden to increase the national debt. And remember Congress approves the federal budget so both parties are guilty of spending more than they collect.
@@KB-ke3fi The US is the biggest warmonger on the planet altough they are no threated on their home-turf since WW2.
The last peace time for the US was 1976 to 1978.
We have created a culture where American business and industry feel they are owed the infrastructure for their activities with no obligations to provide for the same.
NO ITS A CULTURE OF ALCOHOL MENTALITY AND LACK OF BASIC INTELL.
America would rather increase military budget by $50 billion making it $800 billion a year than fix infrastructure. Military budget doesn’t even include billions given away to other countries. Imagine what America could have been if they simply reinvested in their country and citizens by providing not only better roads but a nationalized healthcare.
The US has squandered so much money on stupid military adventures and “nation building” Eisenhower warned us. I used to go to Hong Kong ,China and Europe on business until 2020. US is so far behind. The trajectory is bad. There are not even enough young people going into trades to work on them.
Ask the 30+ years politicians
But there’s lots of money for war
Trying to get the Windsor-Detroit bridge project approved was a feat unto itself largely due to the private ownership of the existing Ambassador bridge whose owners fought tooth and nail against a new crossing. And then, we could not get our American neighbours to pay their share of the construction. In the end, Canada had to finance 85% of the cost of construction.
Matty Moron, I mean Moroun, even funded a ballot initiative to bring all international crossings to a popular state vote. Fortunately, voters in Michigan (Like me), rejected it.
@@TimEssDub why?
private ownerships are thieves. oklahoma highway so bad and it too is all the sudden private ownership. who took over these roads after tax payors money was used to build them?
@@BigBoss-sm9xj sounds like the Canadian gov't jumps when the US gov't tells it to.
Turns out that car infrastructure is financially unsustainable as well as environmentally unsustainable. Building and maintaining 20 highway bridges instead of 1 train bridge that could carry the same amount of traffic or cargo gets expensive. Cyclists and pedestrians, of course, don't need bridges as often. In fact, most "pedestrian" bridges are really car infrastructure, to get pedestrians out of the way so that motorists don't have to slow down or pay attention to their surroundings.
You have suburbia now. It is based on cars.
@@peredavi Not Just Bikes covers how suburbia is subsided by down town and poor neighborhoods. Most of them are financially unviable as the tax base of single dwelling homes is *10%* of the cost of maintaining their infrastructure.
The US is not really set up to be like that.
We do not really have the population density.
@@jeffshackleford3152 Before 1940 the US was like any other city, walkable, with public transit and not dependent on cars. I recommend Not Just Bikes as a view on a different world. One that is economically viable (suburbia is subsidized and too thinly populated to support a tax base that can afford itself), saves lives, saves time, is better economically, healthier and pleasant
@@jeffshackleford3152 Cars have their place, but we use them even to go between and within our cities. Using the most expensive, least-efficient option for absolutely every trip we make is untenable.
The fed and states have fuel taxes, registration fees, and taxes, the states get cash from the feds etc. My old Broward County pothole crews spent half the day sleeping in their trucks under trees. Picked up asphalt in the morning and brought back half of it. Supervisors were told and knew all about it.
Long story short, in the 70s the government started focusing on making IOUs[money] rather than creating wealth (like infrastructure).
Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Improving and replacing our bridges is a problem with execution, not from a lack of resources. As the most recent legislation has shown; we spend plenty of money on "infrastructure" but not nearly enough on infrastructure.
We don’t need more lanes, we need more public transit, higher density, more walkability, mixed use zoning, and regular maintenance scheduled in the budget and planning. There’s little fundamental difference between 50s traffic levels and 80s traffic levels, it’s all about the kind of environments that are built
I concur. My husband and I moved to a walkable community 4 years ago and won a big difference is made in our lives. We spend a lot less time and money on cars and transportation than we ever had in our life wish they would bring trains back in Vogue in the United States what a wonderful beautiful way to travel.
Calm down, the car and oil lobby could hear you.
Amen to that!! 💯
So all these bridges that have collapsed were considered “structurally deficient but safe to use”.
💯
They _were_ safe to use.
Right up until the moment they collapsed.
This country needs help
I have to ask, if that one bridge is 25% of trade between Canada and the USA, what else is in the top ten border crossings list and how does their share of trade compare? Is it mostly truck traffic, or are there rail ways and pipelines too?
That number is often misquoted. It is 25% of trade by value. Items which have a lot of volume are typically shipped by train. This includes items such as cereals, coal and raw ore and oil. It also includes large and extremely heavy items.
The idea that traffic “demand” should govern bridge design is absurd because of induced demand. No matter how many lanes are put on the bridge, you will never be able to eliminate traffic. Other, more space-dense travel modes like cycling and transit are the only solution to traffic.
If everyone just killed themselves traffic would not exist.
I agree that cities should implement extremely good public transit systems.
However, the goal of traffic designers should not be to eliminate traffic but rather to most effectively allow people to go where they want to go.
@@bolt5564 Your solution is a bit more optimistic than mine.
@@jeffshackleford3152 yea but you’re the only one who made me laugh
Then you don't know anything.
1. Future Annual Daily Traffic
2. Axle loads of vehicles.
3. Type of Channel crossing
4. Ground conditions.
5. Notional Loads expected.
6. Design Life and population growth
.....Are just a few of the many factors considered in bridge design.
So traffic demand iscalways a factor. But you are absurd.
They prioritize maintaining the vast military industrial complex. The MIC is one of the legs for maintaining American hegemony, by supporting the Petrodollar reserve currency status.
The reason is that ALL extra money is sent to the military. 13 billion dollars would be great to fix bridges but instead it is given to Ukraine. The USA is a mature economy where the manufacturing left for China. Now we are a service economy and caring for the elderly in what we call Healthcare is the biggest service sector.
.....that includes all the tax breaks given.
Only 5 percent of bridges are in disrepair we spend about 30 billion dollars a year on highway maintenance
Why U.S. Bridges Are In Such Bad Shape?
New bridge construction is a capital expense, typically funded with bonds, i.e., debt.
Existing bridge maintenance is an operating expense that is often underfunded due to budgeting pressures.
So politicians prefer to build new things (not just bridges) with debt, not maintain them to reduce budgets, then replace the poorly maintained deteriorated infrastructure with new things funded with debt, and the cycle continues ad nauseum.
Amen! 💯
30 year government infrastructure and utility engineering manager here. I agree 100%.
Interesting, I had not thought of it like that.
As a Dutch person that loves making videos about transport infrastructure, I really hate to see that too little money is given to infrastructure maintenance!
It is worse than just not enough funds being used. There was one news story that came out after the bridge collapse in Pennsylvania that found that the state had redirected nearly $4,000,000 in funds that should have gone to maintenance to other projects. Meaning the state itself reduced funding and let the wear build up.
@@thisisatonofbs what u expect?
US rather spent it's budget for wars than infrastructure or to spend for people.
Infrastructure collapsing + homelessness, US near sunset and sunrise in China.
@@yogawan3805 We spend more on taking care of Mexico's population over our own. Hundreds of billions each year. What they send home is the number one source of revenue for Mexico...
@@fretsward2225 Iraq, Afghanistan, now Ukraine. One project after another. Never ending. Good luck.
While it is true that our cities should spend more on infrastructure and less on cops (a lot of towns spend more than half their budget on cops), there will never be enough money to keep all of this car infrastructure in good shape. The reason you guys over in the Netherlands have such good bicycle infrastructure is that you realized decades ago that cars were bankrupting you. The U.S. is too rich, though, we'll probably continue throwing money into this black hole for decades before we're forced to change.
do a Walk China search on youtube and see what industrialization does to a country and its cities. There are skyscrapper scenery in 3rd tier cities in China that rival NYC and Chicago.
Learning Mandarin right now.
Geez. Incompetent governments
It's all about spending on war than anything. America needs to use their money on bigger problems than making problems.
The money from the war in the middle east could fix you entire infrastructure
@@redwhite_040 man the money our government wasted could’ve taken a lot of countries out of poverty.
Governments are not focused on fixing problems.
no, its pure cronyism and redirection of funds into salaries and pensions
Congress just passed the bill to send Ukraine 30 billion by relocating Covid fund originally aimed for helping US people. Obviously, US people is not as important.
USA is such a poorly run country. Our governments are doing very poor job maintaining and repairing bridges and tunnels. It is a huge disgrace that our infrastructure is crumbling before our very eyes. There are so many things in America that can be fixed and drastically improved upon. It is time to look at things with critical eyes.
Nonono. We need more money for our military 🌈
@@katjerouac 🤣🤣🤣 Yeah free food room and board for the white supremacy country with clown 🤡 President. That $15 billion for foreigners. I never imagined anyone could be worse than Trump but there is now.
@@KittenBowl1 what are you talking about
Hey only 5 percent of Bridges are in disrepair
After the last inflation shock in the 1970s, Reagan had America mistrust the government and believe in themselves for solutions. That's been the narrative dominating American politics ever since, along with associated side effects of neglected infrastructure which no private entity is capable of rectifying at a profit.
Nice jobs,thanks share
The infrastructure across the nation needed repairs back in the 90's. Americans were warned it would all cost around $5 trillion, but Americans decided it wasn't important and decided to fund other things... I was part of the people who wanted it repaired at that time. In my opinion, the issue is much worse and the chances of it being repaired is close to zero. 7 years of red tape to repair or rebuild a bridge. There's major issues besides bridges and that includes dams that will eventually burst and flood out entire communities.
You seem to think that Americans have the ability to approve or disapprove money for infrastructure improvement. Each state funds that work, not the federal government. States do get money from the federal government, but it is each individual state that makes those decisions. Now which states are engaged in war?
The country is not far from a collapse, in more ways than one
@@daf62757 They voted people in office who did NOTHING to repair infrastructure. It was the Ross Perot campaign who knew it needed repairs. States are heavily dependent on Federal dollars to do repairs. Voters decided they wanted Bill Clinton in office who decided it was best not to repair anything and was best to support legislation to move 80% of our manufacturing to China and Mexico. States cannot afford the massive repairs needed, they simply do not have enough money. The task is much larger than CNBC is making it sound. The chances of it being repaired is close to ZERO. Meaning, we are headed for 3rd world status. Even under the socialist infrastructure bill and I did read over it, there's simply not enough workers who have experience to do the repairs he wants done and most of the funding goes towards N.Y. state and Texas. I agree, it's the states responsibility, but the voters are to blame as well for not electing people who will actually make this a major issue and make things happen.
@@Boxagami I agree with most of what you said, but as a former FHWA employee, I think there is enough money and the states simply don't put the money where it is needed. Texas and California have the most population but I think Texas actually has the better road infrastructure program and their roads are not in that bad of shape.
And if you think the country's roads and bridges are in bad shape now, wait until the Communist government gets there way and we have to drive electric cars which weigh more and will cause much more damage. Plus no more gas tax money since we will not be gassing up.
The government caused this problem but each respective state bears the majority of the blame since the federal highway trust fund has provided trillions of dollars over its life to states to do road work.
blame the democrats that didnt build in the 90s and .id 2000s
It should be In everybodys interest keeping infrastructure In tip top quality.
Seattle has bridges like that. Originally put in expecting single vehicles not semi trucks a multiaxle transit buses. The City has lowered maximum weight per axle and lowered speed limits. Note the transit bus at the break point.
The Brent Spence Bridge Bridge that carries I-75 across the Ohio River between Kentucky and Ohio has large chunks of concrete roadway falling from the upper deck onto traffic on the lower deck. That has been happening fo/r decades. Yet it never gets priority when bridge repairs are mentioned. Not even in this CNBC report. Why is it being ignored?
Bc no one cares about Ohio and Kentucky.
Wow! We must improve our bridges!
From Seattle, where bridges sink.
Looks like waterlogged soil may have been one issue in PA.
Maybe building more train,trams,dedicated bus lane,subway and other can helo these brigde problem
(Train for cargo)
What is sad is the gas company i consulted for spent more money, maintained more miles of road and uograded more roads/bridges than they 4 counties we worked in combined. We had almost 400 miles of road, 80+ bridges and completely rebuilt 20 miles a year not including maintenance. Infrastructure is easy to ignore u till it isnt.
Beautiful.
Wow, $125 billion to repair ALL bridges (at 2:05)? That's a lot of money. That is also only 16% of our yearly military budget. So if we shrink our military spending by 16% for only one year, we can eliminate this huge problem entirely.
I admit that it is not practical to literally shrink the budget by 16% for a year, but it does put our priorities and choices into perspective.
$125B doesn't even have to come all at once.
Greed and corruption. Simple
Because suburbia is a Ponzi scheme of the least efficient zoning. Requiring the most stuff to be built per person, while somehow being subsidized. Fix R1 to something sustainable and walkable.
As my grandma always used to say, "Now say something nice."
Well.... 🤔 if we were ever invaded by Russia, they would have a helluva time getting their convoys around with all our bridges collapsing on them
we spent trillions of dollars on useless wars in the middle east but get stingy when we try to allocate money for basic infrastructure and services.
I love this channel lol
George Washington bridge also super expensive for truckers $105 for every truck , every every time, every day
Good report. Some states, like Pennsylvania and Michigan, are not as wealthy as they used to be from heavy industry, and must still contend with winter weather and road salting. They have high maintenance costs.
The GW Bridge is a vital national highway link. But, that highlights the shortage of trans-Hudson River NY-NJ capacity, either road or rail. NYC subway lines could be extended to New Jersey. Such as the No 7 to Secaucus and the A train over the GW Bridge to Fort Lee. Some existing rail lines can be reconfigured to enable easier cross-regional NJ-NY-Conn/Long Island passenger travel.
In the 20th century, the US opted for a mass motoring society instead of extensive mass transit, so there is an insatiable need for road maintenance.
7 to secaucus is redundant just rebuild NJT Hudson tunnels
Had to wait for over 45 minutes yesterday cause of a sailboat using the lift span of the Interstate Bridge between Oregon and Washington.
Traffic backs up fast on I-5 and takes forever to clear up.
We need a new higher bridge with no lift span.
Unfortunately, it's gonna cost over 3 billion dollars and the Oregon people are whining that don't want to pay a 4 dollar toll each time they cross.
They say it will affect low income residents the most but, with the way gas prices are now, not many low income people are going to use the bridge.
I have a idea 💡
Stop coming across the Columbia to Oregon to take advantage of no sales tax and better jobs than what Vancouver has to offer. BTW, you Washington drivers are awful.
Because rich people and corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes. Which means infrastructure is neglected.
We should repair asap or reduce original weight limit to expand lifespan of our bridges
New stuff won't help if you keep skipping maintenance.
Governors pocket the peoples money and calls it a tax!
Semi Truck pays $102 to cross the George Washington Bridge. Cars about $15.00. Do the math.
That was a pretty informative White Wash. Our infrastructure is in very bad shape if you travel the country, especially off the main thoroughfare. You would probably turn around a lot if you got out of your car or whatever to look under the bridge your about to pass over. While traveling the USA i use to stop and get out to search riverbeds for interesting rocks to tumble when i got home and i saw a lot of decay under the bridges that people don't normally see. The roads and bridges are worse than the nice pie chart i do believe, but that's just my opinion.
Politicians and irresponsible spending is the number one cause of bridge failure.
We used to build stuff. Now we hire consultants and lawyers to tell us how to do it. Everyone gets a cut and the final product is shoddy and won't last. Thus time to hire more consultants to find out why it failed. 🤦♂️
Still have not heard about the trains?
It's called job creation bro 😭😭😭
@@blifx everyone has a job, but no.one wants to be the worker. I say build it. Consultants be damned.
You think only bridges are in bad shape? We have an entire infra structure that is dire need of upgrading. Bu no, the US wants to spend on defense. So that's what you get. Did you know that the federal government has been spending less on higher ed and research than some decades ago? In China it's the opposite.
I’m a chinese and I don’t even know that ,how did you know ?
@@bgg2249 Because before Corona came, family traveled extensively to China (Shenzen) and even the new Bejing airport is massive compared to what the US has.
43000 bridges in need of repairs? That will probably cost a trillion.
If America kept up with that Bridges and maintain them for years we will not be in this problem today.. lack of maintenance.. not to mention the roads and the tunnels are just as bad so now the chickens are coming home to roost.. it's going to cost America to much money no matter how rich America race they cannot catch up on these bills never.
Politicians don’t care ! Period ! Lies after lies
Becoz we spent all we had in invading others
time to buy some more shares of DPLS !! look it up.
Why should we repair core infrastructure when we could just give out free money to banks?
Ukraine gets more $$$ in aide than the budget for repairing the bridges, wonderful priorities.
Man this video has so many negative comments. Who knew bridges attract so much hate.
We built them in the 1920s and 30s (federal highways) then 1960 to 1991 (Eisenhower Interstates).
Then we spent maintenance money on 3 decades of forever wars.
The core issue is corrupted politicians and lack of focus on internal infrastructure. We spend too much money abroad. Our country needs to focus and spend money on domestic infrastructure, and not other countries. America First!
Lack of infrastructure investment: simple.
8:21 that is wrong, the deck will grow from the pylon outward on both sides.
It's not only the state of bridges!!
Because we're Americans and we don't do a damn thing until we have no choice.
Maybe we should give Israel 40 billion dollars a year; it would help revamp our infrastructure.
Who'll fund your largesse?
and let palestine run the west bank because of their great human rights history!
@@AustinWirl what the funk does the West Bank or Israel have to do with the US infrastructure or the American people. It's not only our roads that need the money, the people needed it. Israel is a grown kid now and should go live on his own, being allies, doesn't mean that one side should have parasitic tendencies.
@@yashchandan1_9 what? Speak English!
This is the same problem we’re having with our nation’s bridges. Bridges our great grandfather’s built.
If politicians would stop giving our money to other countries then maybe America would have money to spend on bridges in America
0:30 We’re “woosing the battle”? What the hell does that mean?
counterfeiting all that money oops i mean printing and none for bridges lol
I thought that after the federal government built the highway system it was up to the states to keep the up keep not the government
It’s not working obviously
Political corruption and greed. Our politicians are dishonest criminals. How do the become so rich (working for the people)?.
Poor spending on roads from low taxes, poor management of the existing money, basically.
There has been plenty of taxes through gas taxes. Too much of that money is wasted on redundant environmental regulations and other categories of spending that steal money away from serious needs.
Because in the US paying taxes to build and maintain infrastructure is seen as communism.
Mass transit is definitely seen a communist
Dont be childish. We all pay alot of tax on gas and it should be enough to maintain what we have.
@@chuckd9007 Well, actually in the US this pays only for a fraction of the cost of highways. The largest part is paid for from general taxes.
Then why all other G7 nations except America doesn’t have this issue though they’re all democratic nations? That doesn’t make sense. And don’t forget the US is 15th on infrastructure ranking after some non-democratic countries too. I think you guys got to elect better politicians who are not so focused on going after oils and stop funding way too many wars.
@@KittenBowl1 its not a universal that is in every part of america. Maybe you arent familiar with how large of a country it is in order for you to appreciate the nuances. Lets also not forget that the usa exports many things that the rest of the world cant live without, like food
Bridges require MAINTENANCE which costs $$
I never trusted Maryland’s bay bridge growing up
Because over time infratructure decays yes it hapoens lol...
A MAJOR bridge in Baltimore just downed.
Meanwhile, America:
$2700 billion to military
$100 billion to Israel
$60 billion to Ukraine
$30 billion to Taiwan
But there’s plenty of money to spend on other countries that most Americans can’t find on the map
Preach👍🙌
We need to care more about the function of the bridge and less about how it looks.
Amen to that! 💯
when the press desperately tries to sell the build back better, this is pathetic more spending on the public treasury at the expense of the good and hardworking people
Because mineral budget is too big
"$125Billion to repair all bridges." Sooo... About 16% of the annual military budget... What a joke.
How dare you suggest the executives at Boeing and Lockheed Martin don't deserve a solid gold HMMWVs and diamond studded swimming pools!!
But who is going to spread Democracy and Freedoom!!??!
Gotta free the world with shock and awe baby!!
The federal goverment brings in 40 plus billion from gas tax and local goverments bring about the same. There is plenty of money to take care of the roads.
@@chuckd9007 dude... That $125 billion to ONLY fix the most critical bridges. That does NOT include the $203 billion spent each year on top of that that is required simply to do basic maintennance on the roads already built and some capital projects. It also doesn't include many upgrades to current road infrastructure that is desperately needed in many parts of the country. Gasoline taxes are a drop in the bucket for what is needed.
What?? I thought they always just fixed all these bridges like any other roads,, wtf
Nah better funding war on other countries
And this is what happens when a country privatised everything, private industry don't care about anything but money/cost
I cannot for the life of me understand why Americans are so against infrastructure spending. Do you seriously believe bridges, railways, dams, and roads will just pop out of nowhere? Or maybe they will be handed to you by the billionaires whose tax-free existence you seek to zealously protect?
We are not against spending on infrastructure, it's actually the opposite. What you fail to understand is that our politicians, who create the bills for infrastructure spending, add in additional nonsense spending for their special interests that have nothing to do with infrastructure, hence the reason they have a hard time agreeing to pass infrastructure spending.
@@stupidshouldhurt8363 eh? It is you who put those politicians in their seats, so you cannot escape responsibility for their subsequent bad decisions.
@@abbofun9022 The media picks the candidates the folks that bother to vote put them in office. That's how it works in America.
Uncle sam: betters spend on wars, than on infrastructure, education and nation’s wellbeing.
Wonder if we'll ever see 45 in documentaries like this
We're to busy worrying about the other's giving money away but never check our back yard
I've driven across the Forbes Avenue bridge in Pittsburgh thousands of times. Very scary to imagine its collapse.
It happened in Minnesota
If Lou Barletta would have been able to stop the deluge and not be considered a racist for wanting to take care of American citizens first, the state wouldn't be in deficit for have to pump out billions to take care of illegal aliens who don't belong in the country in the first place. Americans have been led by a filthy deceitful media and big tech to believe it is racist to care for their follow citizens instead of Mexico's citizens first...
I’ll save you 12 minutes - they’re too busy wasting and stealing the money
March 10th, Congress decided to send Ukraine $13.6 billion and cancelled $15 billion Covid fund originally aimed to help US people. Good job!
We also passed a trillion dollar infrastructure plan
No? You don’t say? Things like that only happen in China!
Unnecessary wars exhausted the economy to the extent that there is so little for repairing the dysfunctional Infrastructure , Afghanistan war alone took over 2.3 trilion USD !
2 trillion WTF
@@ahadumer418 still much f*** face thank you for the correction 😊
One thing is striking in the US: Wherever you go, you see 2.5 ton trucks transporting a single individual between A and B. By weaning 'Muricans off heavy trucks and getting them to use small cars (700kg up) will solve the bridge/road load problem in one fell swoop, not to mention the fuel savings! I know that in 'Murica this is a pipe dream, but still...
Wrong, totally wrong. I've been an engineer for 38 years. Heavy commercial trucks with a legal weight limit of 40 tons control the design loads and stresses on bridge structures, and they aren't going anywhere. Like it or not, heavy commercial trucks will form a vital component of the transportation picture for the foreseeable future.
That's not to say that it wouldn't be beneficial to switch from heavy SUVs to lighter passenger cars, but it won't have an effect on bridge longevity.
Remember folks we have enough money to out spend the top military spenders combined but not enough for infrastructure and universal Healthcare