Given the
bridge tragedy that hit Minneapolis, I got the thinking about a bridge within the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Here we have a bridge, specifically the Greenfield Bridge; which is losing chunks of concrete and God only knows what shape it's in. What does the City of Pittsburgh do? Why install nets along the base of the bridge to "catch" the chunks of concrete? In fact, the City has also constructed a big giant "catch basin" monstrosity spanning the entire length of the highway below to catch not only further falling concrete, but also pieces of debris people throw onto the traffic below. So, let's not fix the bridge, right? Nope. We'll simply install mechanisms to "catch" the pieces of crumbling bridge instead.
However, the City of Pittsburgh will make it their business to find the funding to erect two new stadiums (and now a new Arena), but cannot find the funding to repair/replace the Greenfield Bridge. Now there's some good priorities. It gets even better! The City Of Pittsburgh delights in taxing those people who work within the city limits, but do not live within the City Of Pittsburgh boundaries. But the City of Pittsburgh will continue to increase taxes, and then wonder why
people are leaving, I'd consider the previous link hardcore evidence of real smart economists running the City Of Pittsburgh, right?
Just another example of the tax dollars in the City of Pittsburgh hard at work.