Infrastructure Week

[Longhorn_Fan68 33843]

This is kinda nuts. Biden was on his way to Pittsburgh to further sell the infrastructure bill. Nearby bridge collapses. I have a feeling this is only the beginning of these types of failures . We have neglected our physical infrastructure for too long.

 

[henrygandorf 29177]

bridges in pittsburgh are pet projects for the far left. 

[RomaVicta 29794]

Bridges collapse. The 1% creates private toll bridge companies. You pay or swim.

GOP celebrates capitalism. So do the idiots that don't know the meaning of capitalism but think they're capitalists even though they don't have capital.

I.W.

 

[HenryJames 65890]

More like Infrastructure Weak amirite.

[Underdog 28457]

Damn, 2 weeks just flew by. 

[RPM 26229]

If you pork barrel build a bridge you just gotta waste more money maintaining it. Typical socialist project.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33843]

It is pretty remarkable there have been no reported casualties. I hope that remains true

[Gap03 3287]

This was clearly a false flag operation run by an Antifa demolition squad in coordination with the Biden admin - damn socialists are a menace, I tell ya!

[lemonlime 5503]

Our national priorities are so incredibly fucked up.

 

[Biff Tannen 45499]

19 hours ago, Gap03 said:

This was clearly a false flag operation run by an Antifa demolition squad in coordination with the Biden admin - damn socialists are a menace, I tell ya!

There is a not insignificant portion of Americans who would believe this. Several that post here, I’m sure. 

Edited January 29, 2022 by Biff Tannen

[Anastasis 23394]

1/28 was an inside job. You think it’s just a coincidence  that Hunter Biden met with Ben Roethlisberger the same morning. Steel doesn’t just melt like that. 

[JimmyJames 12271]

On 1/28/2022 at 10:22 AM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

This is kinda nuts. Biden was on his way to Pittsburgh to further sell the infrastructure bill. Nearby bridge collapses. I have a feeling this is only the beginning of these types of failures . We have neglected our physical infrastructure for too long.

 

The simulation is starting to make itself too obvious. 

[elfenix 34171]

because google listens to me as i drone on in the car about how shitty the roads are and why can't we build anything at all for less than several multiples of what it costs elsewhere:

 

 

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A $100 Billion Lesson In Why Building Public Transportation Is So Expensive in the US

 

There's a plan to spend $100 billion fixing the Northeast Corridor by 2035. Similar countries build entire new rail corridors with dozens of new stations for a fraction of that cost. Why can't the U.S.?

 

 

 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7b5mn/a-dollar100-billion-lesson-in-why-building-public-transportation-is-so-expensive-in-the-us

 

looks no one is really in charge, and the guy who is nominally in charge just seems to care about how big his budget is, who gives a fuck as to why that might be.  and he doesn't bother asking, if this could be done for 1/4 of the cost, what else could we do?

[elfenix 34171]

and because google then feeds me things that are related to things i've clicked on, matt yglesias proposes that amtrak focus on building a proper NE corridor washington - NYC HSR line (connecting far more people than TGV's original line), which is almost certain to be a success and at the very least will relieve airport congestion in NYC

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Amtrak released their new vision for passenger rail expansion in the United States, and I don’t really know what to say except that it sucks. They’re proposing incremental expansion of a national network of slow, infrequent trains that I guess will serve the needs of weirdos and hobbyists who want to ride a train from Birmingham to Shreveport or from Athens to Fort Wayne via Columbus but serves no particular transportation purpose.

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But I was thinking about this mostly because it reminded me of how annoying it is that the United States is stuck between perpetually debating railfan fantasy maps and naysayers talking about how most of the country is too sparse for rail, when the truth is that a small portion of the USA should be one of the world’s great high-speed train markets. I refer of course to the Northeast Corridor, whose incredible potential is cast into stark relief by the success of the relatively unpromising Paris-Lyon-Marseille line.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/amtrak-should-build-a-good-train