So we have the highest gasoline taxes in the country here in PA, but we have the 2nd most crumbling bridges in the country. We also have the highest toll charges per mile in the country. This money is supposed to be used to keep roads and bridges from crumbling. It’s a conundrum. Where did all that money go? Maybe we should ask the numerous Department of Transportation officials currently occupying prison cells in our state prisons. Pennsylvania is corrupt to its core.
Back in August 2007, the dangerous and decaying state of America’s infrastructure became a shocking reality when the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, sending vehicles crashing into the river below. 13 people were killed while another 145 were injured. In August 2018, a bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy, shocked the world with 43 people losing their lives. After that catastrophe, many countries, including the United States, started to seriously look at the state of their deteriorating infrastructure.
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