Bridge collapses along Forbes Avenue through Frick Park in Pittsburgh

[Elderberry]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1/28/2022

The bridge that carries Forbes Avenue through Frick Park collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday morning.

Pittsburgh Public Safety warned the public to avoid the area near the intersection of Forbes and Braddock avenues, which split the Point Breeze, Regent Square and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods.

Police, fire and EMS were responding to the collapse, Public Safety said.

No injuries were immediately reported. A photo from Post-Gazette news partner KDKA-TV showed at least four vehicles that had fallen into the chasm left by the collapsed bridge, with another vehicle dangling precariously over the edge.

Public Safety tweeted that there was “a strong smell of natural gas in the area.”

More: https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2022/01/28/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse-forbes-braddock-avenue-point-breeze-squirrel-hill/stories/202201280075

[mountaineer]

Rescuers rappelled nearly 150 feet to help stranded bus passengers. (Associated Press)
Story at FOX News

Thankfully, only minor injuries have been reported. Lefties, of course, are blaming Republicans who didn't support Dementia Joe's boondoggle "infrastructure" bill, but the neglect of this and just about every other bridge and roadway in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County has gone on for years. All of those years have been under Democrat rule.

[GtHawk]

Rescuers rappelled nearly 150 feet to help stranded bus passengers. (Associated Press)
Story at FOX News

Thankfully, only minor injuries have been reported. Lefties, of course, are blaming Republicans who didn't support Dementia Joe's boondoggle "infrastructure" bill, but the neglect of this and just about every other bridge and roadway in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County has gone on for years. All of those years have been under Democrat rule.

If they want to blame someone shouldn't it be the Barry/Brandon regime's shoveling mierda show that was supposed to fix all the infrastructure problems but was just a massive payola scheme?

[DefiantMassRINO]

Wasn't Frick the minion who Carnegie tasked with mistreatment of workers to maximimize profits?

I'm suprised a union city like Pittsburgh would publicly honor him.  That would be like naming a park in Atlanta, Georgia, for General Sherman.

[mountaineer]

The Frick estate and mansion (now museum), and Frick Park have long been landmarks in Pittsburgh. Yes, unionists probably hate him.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Pittsburgh bridge collapse leaves 10 injured ahead of Biden's visit
Fox News, Jan 28, 2022

Ten people were injured following a two-lane bridge collapse in Pittsburgh early Friday morning, according to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Three of those injured were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, though they remain hospitalized Friday. First responders reported to the scene and rappelled nearly 150 feet to help passengers from a dangling bus. Others formed a human chain to help rescuers with the effort.

President Biden, who is expected in Pittsburgh Friday to speak on infrastructure issues, will proceed with his trip as planned, according to a statement from the White House.




https://www.foxnews.com/us/three-hospitalized-pittsburgh-bridge-collapse-ahead-bidens-visit

[GtHawk]

Who here wouldn't put it past Biden's people to sabotage a bridge to bring attention to a useless piece of legislation designed more as payola than infrastructure repair?

[mountaineer]

So glad he visited my hometown. 

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1487166793793818625

[unite for individuality]

Who here wouldn't put it past Biden's people to sabotage a bridge to bring attention to a useless piece of legislation designed more as payola than infrastructure repair?

That bridge had been there for fifty years.
Out of all the days that it could have fallen down,
what is the probability that it would
just happen to fall down on the ONE day that
"President" Biden visits to talk about "infrastructure?"

[mountaineer]

The bridge has been neglected for many years by the various Democrats running Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It received "poor" ratings from bridge inspectors for many years, but no one did anything.

But somehow, the lefties are blaming Sen. Pat Toomey for not voting for Biden's porkulus infrastructure bill whenever it was up for a vote in the past few months. Has one dollar been spent from that bill yet? It really wouldn't have done much good for this bridge, would it?

[Smokin Joe]

If they want to blame someone shouldn't it be the Barry/Brandon regime's shoveling mierda show that was supposed to fix all the infrastructure problems but was just a massive payola scheme?

"Shovel Ready Jobs!" (shovel the money in)...

If they were anything in PA like the ones in CO, they put the signs up proclaiming the road was going to be repaired using those funds, and took the signs down when the budget ran out. The road never got repaired...

[GtHawk]

"Shovel Ready Jobs!" (shovel the money in)...

If they were anything in PA like the ones in CO, they put the signs up proclaiming the road was going to be repaired using those funds, and took the signs down when the budget ran out. The road never got repaired...

At least here in California some of the new improved higher gas tax actually is going to infrastructure around me, there are at least five freeway overpasses and extra lanes/transitions going in around me.

[Hoodat]

Pittsburgh bridge's 2016 infrastructure funding reportedly diverted to bike lanes and green energy programs

Monica Showalter  |  29 Jan 2022

Joe Biden and his Democrat allies wasted no time trying to make political hay out of a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh, a city Biden had just arrived in to discuss his infrastructure bill:

The collapse happened just hours before President Biden traveled to the area to speak at a previously scheduled event about the $1 trillion infrastructure bill he signed into law last year.

"We have been so far behind on infrastructure for so many years it's just mind-boggling," Mr. Biden told a group of elected officials and first responders during a visit to the collapse site. "...We used to be number one in the world."

Earlier, Mayor Ed Gainey told reporters the collapse highlights the need for the federal funding.

"With him coming today to talk about this infrastructure bill, to discuss why this funding is so important, today is significant," the mayor told reporters.

One problem: The bridge has already been to that infrastructure well earlier.

Here's a rather amazing tweet thread from a Pittsburgh local:

https://twitter.com/libertyismetal/status/1487251701480443915

Instead of repairing the bridge with what likely would have been the Obama-era shovel-ready 2009 infrastructure funds for "roads and bridges," known as the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," the cash went to bike lanes and green boondoggles, and too bad about the actual structure that was decaying and deteriorating. Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg loves those bike lanes.  .  .  .

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/pittsburgh_bridges_2016_infrastructure_funding_reportedly_diverted_to_bike_lanes_and_green_energy_programs.html

[IsailedawayfromFR]

It is why there is never enough money to tax and spend in the minds of leftists.

How many times has welfare been given our to keep people from 'becoming poor' yet we always have more poor people.

Where ae all the infrastructure projects that Obama promised was 'shovel ready'.

The only way ANY new spending or taxes should be considered is a bottom-up review of each and every dollar spent. Zero-based budgeting.

Every family practices it every day as we do not have the luxury of spending more than we can indefinitely.  The govt needs to do the same.

[mountaineer]

Retrieving the Port Authority Transit bus:

More photos at https://www.facebook.com/DaveDiCelloPhotography