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2022-01-30 -Great Cultural Revolution

Pittsburgh bridge's 2016 infrastructure funding reportedly diverted to bike lanes and green energy programs

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Posted by Frank G 2022-01-30 06:57|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Do you mean to tell me, over the course of 50 years (yes, a half-century) there were maintenance funds made available for this structure and it somehow got spent on something else ?

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-30 07:26|| 2022-01-30 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Bike Lane Billy Peduto. They voted for him. First as a city councilman, then as mayor. Got it good and hard. But they are probably proud there that the malfeasance and misfeasance turned into a photo op for their beloved Joe.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-30 07:46|| 2022-01-30 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 That photo is a perfect emblem for the Biden Admin's effect on this country

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-30 07:56|| 2022-01-30 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ This problem was brewing a long time. All blue states have only one long term plan for their misspending - to have the rest of the country bail them out.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-30 08:00|| 2022-01-30 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Still "just saying" ☺.

Isn't interesting how well-timed, that Biden just "happen" to be in the same town where he is pushing a $1.# Trillion infrastructure bill and have Bridge collapse like on cue as an example.

What happened to the recent 2017 $$$$ and other Infrastructure bills passed over the years.

Eg. Like the one that was passed soon after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed over the Mississippi River (Minneapolis) that killed over 140+ persons.

Were the congressional rules so lax and it became a slush fund used for pet projects like bike lanes instead of bridges for votes?

BTW: The NTSB has officially stated in the past, almost 1 in 10 U.S. Bridges are Structurally Deficient. Where is the $$$$$ going?

Posted by NN2N1 2022-01-30 10:11|| 2022-01-30 10:11|| Front Page Top

#6 they can flap their arms to cross now voted for lied for protected for flap flap get mufon on it call it a progressive flap!

Posted by Greng Black3494 2022-01-30 15:13|| 2022-01-30 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 A case of spending seed corn.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-01-30 18:32|| 2022-01-30 18:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Of course the Governor is blaming Republicans.
"Shame on the Republican lawmakers who didn't support the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Pennsylvanian lives are on the line. It's long past time for the political games to come to an end."
He doesn't know or care that the infrastructure bill passed and that the funds to fix the bridge were usurped.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-01-30 20:09|| 2022-01-30 20:09|| Front Page Top

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