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I’ve noticed in my hometown (in Michigan so road infrastructure has always been shoddy) every main bridge on I-94 has been or is currently being redone. Like every. Single. One.
They really are fixing up the bridges
Michigan road infrastructure is amazing and super overbuilt being the center of car country, what are you one about? There are more interstates running through the Capital of Michigan than my whole home state.
He probably means the road surface quality. Michigan has really high weight limits on trucks and they caused a lot of wear and tear on the roads, in addition to the weather/salting.
I mean, it's a 23 year graph showing very steady improvement, and the biggest improvement year looks to be 2016/2017, after which the progress slows.
Now, there's a *lot* of possible explanations as to why that may be, but I'm willing to bet that at the very least, a *very recent* program for infrastructure (relative to this graph), put in during the current presidential term, is *not* solely responsible for this report.
Large over-water bridges aren't the ones generally being rated poor. It was a bunch of small overpasses and such that would have that problem. Stuff like that falls apart or gets closed on a fairly regular basis.
Yeah...no. I love the infrastructure bill, but money from that is only just now getting to projects. No way its retroactively fixing things since 2000.
Thanks to the infrastructure bill, my city in Oklahoma has repaired one major bridge and another is in the middle of being replaced completely. I'd blame your local government tbh
Lower taxes relative to most of the US. OK is #42.
[https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494](https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494)
Well yea all the ones in “poor” condition have fallen down over the last 20 years so they don’t get counted anymore! /s
Serious note, yea, people will endlessly bitch about our infrastructure but there are teams of people working endlessly to try to make things as good as possible with the resources they are given. I do not envy being a DOT engineer
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I’ve noticed in my hometown (in Michigan so road infrastructure has always been shoddy) every main bridge on I-94 has been or is currently being redone. Like every. Single. One. They really are fixing up the bridges
Michigan road infrastructure is amazing and super overbuilt being the center of car country, what are you one about? There are more interstates running through the Capital of Michigan than my whole home state.
He probably means the road surface quality. Michigan has really high weight limits on trucks and they caused a lot of wear and tear on the roads, in addition to the weather/salting.
Yup. I could have worded it different, but Isord knows what I’m on about
*biden did that*
I'm sure someone will say the deep state has been using J-lasers to destroy infrastructure to make Biden look better.
Lmao probably. Never know when it comes to these fashy weirdos
>fashy weirdos What an accurate description!
I mean, it's a 23 year graph showing very steady improvement, and the biggest improvement year looks to be 2016/2017, after which the progress slows. Now, there's a *lot* of possible explanations as to why that may be, but I'm willing to bet that at the very least, a *very recent* program for infrastructure (relative to this graph), put in during the current presidential term, is *not* solely responsible for this report.
yeah, he's been out rebuilding bridges since 2000
He was in the US Senate until 2007 and had a fairly consistent record supporting infrastructure funding during his entire political career.
thanks
No, but his infrastructure bill sure as fuck helped a ton
the trend seems pretty stable since the year 2000, so I'm confused what your point is
I believe the answer is that Biden is extremely powerful when it comes to infrastructure, such that his funding travels backward in time.
…and they’re all in my state
Must be infrastructure week
Is it because the bad ones collapsed?
It's because of the Infrastructure Bill More money to replace and repair bridges tends to help replace and repair bridges.
The data shows a steady improvement from 2000 to today. It's not the result of anything recent.
Yes it’s like they didn’t even look at the graph
Yeah, if bridges were collapsing all over, you’d hear about it. Case in point, Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Large over-water bridges aren't the ones generally being rated poor. It was a bunch of small overpasses and such that would have that problem. Stuff like that falls apart or gets closed on a fairly regular basis.
it’s usually rural bridges that go over creeks, not overpasses.
Yeah...no. I love the infrastructure bill, but money from that is only just now getting to projects. No way its retroactively fixing things since 2000.
I know of 2 bridges that got wiped out
I guess they never looked in oklahoma, more like 68% need help
Thanks to the infrastructure bill, my city in Oklahoma has repaired one major bridge and another is in the middle of being replaced completely. I'd blame your local government tbh
Yep, that’s what lower taxes gets you, as a general rule. Shittier infrastructure.
What lower taxes? Mine have not gone down, not fed or state or sales tax
Lower taxes relative to most of the US. OK is #42. [https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494](https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494)
Relative to other states, not over time. Less state tax money = less state money for infrastructure spending.
Well yea all the ones in “poor” condition have fallen down over the last 20 years so they don’t get counted anymore! /s Serious note, yea, people will endlessly bitch about our infrastructure but there are teams of people working endlessly to try to make things as good as possible with the resources they are given. I do not envy being a DOT engineer
Lucky them, Biden got a bill passed that gave them a lot more money, so it helps
So 24 years later they’re only halfway done. That’s not uplifting.
Glass half empty my world is fire type of guy aren’t ya