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The bridge that just collapsed in the city of Pittsburgh was set to be restored in 2016. Instead of replacing the completely rusted out supports, they diverted the money to bike lanes, green energy programs and lanes for self driving cars.

From the comments: I live in PA. We have the highest gas tax in the nation. It was raised in 2013 with the additional funds supposed to go for bridge and highway repair. But in typical Democrat fashion, they looted the funds for other purposes. Here is just one example…

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  1. Odd it collapsed just as The pResident Pantshitter in Chief arrived for a pow wow with the locals.
    Wonder if it has anything to do with that fancy new Trillionz $ Build Back Better infrastructure bill.

    I know, I know , conspiracy theories, until they ain’t.

    1. Here’s a new charge an environmental hazard fee for bottled water of $10 bucks each for a $4.99 15 litter bottle.
      In Trudeauland ALL PLASTICS are a hazard and as such we get dinged again at the till.

  2. If only they had gotten a troop of lesbian Haitan furries to repair it, that would’ve been a good compromise between envirotards and public interest. That approach worked wonders in Fla. a few years ago.

    1. *
      “a troop of lesbian Haitan furries”

      they were all too busy being vetted for the
      upcoming vacancy on the supreme court.

      *

  4. Maintenance and engineering are boring. And to make it worse … it is practiced by mostly white and Asian MEN!!! Where’s the “equity” in that? Where’s the political grandstanding in that? DEI (DIE) specialists don’t come cheap.

    Oh well … I guess people are gonna have to start dying. And taxes will have to spike ever higher. The beatings will resume now … and get even MORE intense.

  5. This is what happens when the superstitions of the enviro cult replace common sense. With the greenie retards in charge, our infrastructure will reach sub-saharan Africa levels in under a generation.

    1. because every Electric Car they make counts against their CAFE score… eventually, they will build the EVs, add a surcharge to ICE vehicles, send them to be recycled, and repeat

    1. Welcome.

      Well, look at what the Dems did to Detroit.
      It boils down to the makers and the takers.

      When there’s more takers , you get that bridge.

    2. Welcome friend. My reply would be “yet the fine people of PA continue to vote Democrat”.

      Also, the money was diverted to the police fund. Isn’t PA the safest place in the world now? Other than bridge travel?

      1. Steve – Or do they continue to vote for Democrats? Massive vote fraud is always the go to for “ re-election “ in traditionally Democrat states. The presumption must be that the unConstitutional election law in PA, and the associated illegal “ voting “ , stole that state for Biden.

        And Cook County turned a loss into the Presidency for JFK. It’s the Democrat way!

    3. Welcome. Here in CA our gas taxes (second highest in the nation) and bridge tolls have gone everywhere BUT into road and bridge repair. Why? Because Jerry Brown and all his green sycophants believed that if you repair, expand, and improve roadways … it will “just encourage more planet-killing driving of automobiles”.

      Just curious … our bridge tolls just increased to $7.00 min. What are your bridge tolls?

  8. During the same 3 months GM sold 440,745 GASOLINE cars

    GM sold 26 ELECTRIC CARS and sold 440,745 gasoline cars

    26 over 440,745 is about .005 %

    in those 3 months 99.995% of GM cars that were bought by consumers were GASOLINE cars

    Why bother making electric cars when no one wants them ?

    1. No one wants GM’s electric cars. Have you ever seen the Chevy Volt? It looks like a Chevy Citation from the 1980s. GM doesn’t want you buying electric cars. Big mistake on their part. Tesla on the other hand sold almost 1 million EVs in 2021. That’s a lot of cars. $50 billion.

      Electric cars are coming. Make no mistake. They solve 1 big problem (2 actually, but the second creates a problem). #1: less air pollution in the cities. In the world’s most populous cities there are so many people the air quality is crap. Electric cars will solve this problem (over the next 20 years).

      #2 : EVs remove the bad players of the world who control the oil & gas market (Middle East, OPEC, Russia). Problem is the power is transferred to the states and provinces (that control the electricity grid) and I’m not sure which is worse.

      1. Until such a time as EV’s can boast energy densities, power transfer rates and battery reliability in terms of charge/discharge cycles of around 10x what they are now, they solve no problems whatsoever, in fact, they introduce a whole host of new problems that ICEs don’t have.

        1. EV’s are nothing more than high tech golf carts as are used at every retirement community where the sun shines most of the day … used only for short trips to the grocery store. And they are always a second or third car for families with a RANGE ROVER in the garage. There. I gave you an honest ethnography of every Tesla owner in my upper, upper, middle class N.CA community.

        2. If energy density was the only factor in determining the practicality of a fuel source we would all be driving hydrogen powered cars (130 versus 45 Mj/kg for gasoline), or better yet uranium-powered (500,000 Mj/kg). And although they will have to pry my ICE from my cold dead hands, they will. So there’s that. But you should look at some of the advancements in EV battery technology, such as the recent doubling of energy availability (simple engineering) and the development of cheaper manganese sulphate to replace cobalt (simple chemistry). The EV has been reduced to an engineering problem, not a science problem. So it’s day will come.

      2. Tesla sells most of their cars outside of the USA.

        and those sold in the USA are almost all sold in California.

        Most Americans don t have and don t want a Tesla or any other electric vehicle.

        China controls 90% of the rare earth metals necessary to make electric cars, if ever there is a serious conflict, war etc, China could cut our access to those rare earth metals.

        Other minerals come from mines in places such as Congo, to extract those minerals they have to destroy the environment, and they need billions of gallons of water…that water is then thrown back in the environment even though it is contaminated with toxic chemicals.

        I could go on with many other problems caused by electric cars

        by the way many of those facts are from the United Nations report, they are not fake news.

        EVs are not as magically clean and as magically without causing problems as we are told they are by politicians, the media and the save-the-planet-crowd.

        1. The so-called rare earth metals are not rare at all (I think you are talking about lithium). They can be found anywhere on earth. It just so happens the Chinese are willing to mine them for pennies with no environmental standards so we buy from them rather than develop our own.

          The Congo produces 60-70% of the world’s cobalt, an important component in battery technology. This metal is being engineered out of EVs, replaced by cheaper and more widely available manganese.

          1. Nope, Lithium is not a rare earth metal

            neither is Cobalt.

            and nope rare earth metals are not found everywhere…which is why they are called rare…

            You need to read more about the topic.

            the rare earth metals are,

            lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), lutetium (Lu), scandium (Sc), and yttrium (Y)

      3. Electric cars only look good for the environment if you ignore a whole lot. To scratch the surface: the lithium mining, the battery disposal, the short lifespan compared to gasoline cars. Lots of waste. Huge “embodied carbon” in them, so even by greenie calculations they’re bad. The range is too small to be really useful for anything beyond within-city short trips. Plus, you’re then dependent on the grid for to charge them up. If there’s a week-long power outage, like after a storm or something, and you’re trapped.

        1. I have no dog in this hunt but if one is handy , you could hook a trailer and tow a diesel generator connected to the battery.
          But that defeats the whole purpose in the first place.

        2. Kevin- but they transfer money and power to leftists. That’s the only thing that matters.

      4. EVs don’t do anything that ICE cars don’t do better. The market for EVs is like a market for high density housing, artificially created though government meddling. EVs are completely useless if you want to drive long distance. I can have an EV for grocery shopping or occasional to/from work commute (I work mostly from home (Wuhan Flu or not) I am physically in my office maybe twice a week, less if I can help it). I tend to do about half of my driving in the summer and those are long distance trips to and from the cottage. There is no EV that will not significantly add to the time it takes me to get out of the outskirts of the city and into civilization.

        Also EVs are gay.

    2. CF

      …..and plenty of Duramax Diesels too, I’m betting…NO.??

      They hit the Ground here in Calgary and a day later – GONE to their owners who’ve been waiting. They’re typically sold 6-8 Weeks before even arriving in town – many without even an entertainment centre..!!

      All I can say (in relation to JD’s comment of electronically driving said satellites over a Cosmic cliff), I am so glad my D’max is an older ’06….no Internet interconnecting capability whatsoever. You wanna drive me over a cliff..?? Ya better have a Desert Eagle pointed at my head…and even then, remember whose driving the bigger “gun”.

      As to an “Electric” Hummer…?
      Laffin my (_i_) off at that image..!!! Rainbow painted of course no.??

  10. L – It was the citizens of that state that were thrown under the bus.

    Telling the citizenry to trust the gov’t. in 2022; it is proving to be a bridge that collapsed, too.

  11. The big story at Blackie’s CBC website this morning, was that we need to move away from fossil fuels to heat our homes. What could possible go wrong?

    1. I agree. Burn a Greenie, instead…

      (Note to our CSIS & Queen’s Horsemen monitors: that’s known as sarcasm, you idiots. Nobody actually wants to burn a Greenie ’cause they all smell like feces.)

      1. Could always render them down, like in a big bio fuels plant.
        Soylent Fuel is sheeple !
        And in Hillarys case, cabbage and urine.

  12. Diverting funds from unglamorous bridge maintenance and repair to bike lanes and other wonderful green projects sounds like what Calgary’s city council would support. Stupid is as stupid does.

    1. Well seems we traded a Chicom POS for another ChiCom POS.

      STOLEN Election as well. Dominion Voting machines…no.?
      Who even heard of that Commie stunt anyway..??
      Not even sworn in as mayor, but just has to shoot her Fucking yap off, proclaiming a “Climate Emergency”… unreal

      1. We’re no better off here in Edmonton.

        We traded Biking Donnie for a failed Prinz Dummkopf cabinet minister.

  13. PA has had a Democrat Woke Governor for the last 7 years, and yet he tried to blame others for the collapse. As somebody pointed out to him on Twitter: “What is it that you do again?”

  14. That looks like a forerunner of the PissAwayTrillions bill(s). Throwing away fabulous sums on worthless woke crap.
    Everything the wokesters touch turns to crap.

  15. When it is possible to screw up something, that seems to be the best possible thing to do these days. Rational logical thought and all that.

  17. It’s not just there that bridges are poorly maintained.

    At Taylor, B. C., near Fort St. John, the bridge over the Peace River is more than 60 years old and it’s in dreadful condition. It seems to undergo an annual round of repairs (late last spring, overnight traffic was restricted to allow for welding work to be done) and it’s a question of how long it’ll last.

    The local MLA has tried to draw Victoria’s attention to it but, of course, the Horgan administration does what a typical B. C. government does: nothing. The bridge is located in Deplorable country, so why bother?

  18. Is it even legal to divert federal funds from bridge repair etc. to build useless bike lanes? How is what they did not fraud?

    1. I think in a lot of cases this money is just dumped into a big general slush fund & drawn from there whichever way they want.

  19. As many here know, the new mayor of Calgary declared a climate emergency right AFTER she was elected to the corporate capital of Canada’s oil and gas province. That will no doubt mean she and her stooges in council will divert infrastructure money to expanding the bike lanes no one uses and other green causes. We have now seen another good example of where that leads. It already lead to the collapse of the deal to build the new Flames arena where the cost had been shared with the Flames ownership. I’m sure that money will get spent anyways, on green projects no doubt.

    1. Paul….as to the collapse of the Flames deal.
      Ahhhh Gee, thats too bad.

      There is NO WAY that EVERY TAX payer in this city should be on the hook for a Billionaires – Millionaires playground….I don’t give a damn about anything.

      They want it..? They can FUCKING WELL PAY FOR IT THEMSELVES or they can leave.

      I was a rabid NHL & NFL Fan up until about 3 yrs ago. When Don Cherrr-y got sacked, & then
      the WOKE & COVID Bullshit swept through both of those sports…?? I’d had enough and said to hell with PRO Sports and the Olympics as well. 100% Opted out – not a penny goes their way…and funny thing is..?? LMAO, I don’t miss it at all.!!

      Sooner listen to Amateur Golf on AM Radio…or my mewling Cat imitating Neil Young

  20. Let’s not forget the 2008 Obama Stimulus Plan which included 27 Billion for highway and bridge repair. As I recall, most of it ended up propping up the Unions in the form of a slush fund. Interestingly, distribution of funds was assigned to the Vice President at the time. Who might that be?

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