Former President Joe Biden used the corrupt New Hampshire Bridge to sell large infrastructure packages in 2021, but the bridge is still poor despite the bill unleashing billions of dollars in spending.
Biden was standing in front Rusty metal bridge In November 2021, they carried Route 175 across the Pemigewaset River in New Hampshire and talked about the promises of Infrastructure Investment and Employment Act (IIJA). The bill Biden signed that month put billions of dollars nationwide, but the New Hampshire bridges remain poor, According to To the NH Journal.
“The state has already spent $250,000 on repairing a ‘band-aid’ on this bridge alone,” Biden said. I said In November 2021, he was standing in front of the bridge. “And now, your state has 215 bridges – 215 bridges considered structurally unsafe in New Hampshire alone… But thanks to the Infrastructure Act, we will make the most important investment in modernizing our roads and bridges within 70 years. (Related: Biden-Harris admin throws over $40 billion on internet buildout. Three years later, no single project is ongoing)
President Joe Biden listens to the New Hampshire Department of Transport Victoria Sheehan will speak on infrastructure at the NH 175 Bridge on the Pemigewaset River in Woodstock, New Hampshire on November 16th, 2021.
“My message to the people of New Hampshire is simple,” Biden said. “It’s this. New Hampshire and America are moving again for this delegation. Your life will change for the better, and it’s literally.”
According to the NH Journal, around 570 drivers use the bridge every day, but only supports about 3 tons of weight, making it essentially off-limits, even based on commercial trucks and some passenger cars.
The 86-year-old structure has long been on the New Hampshire “red list.” This means that the state has identified it as a bridge that requires regular inspections because it is in poor condition, the NH Journal reported. Additionally, state officials notified local counterparts in May 2022 that the bridge should be reduced to a single lane and further reduce the maximum weight limit.
The 175-foot New Hampshire Bridge is one of many repair projects that have yet to come true despite the availability of billions of dollars from Biden’s infrastructure bill, according to the NH Journal.
“We’re not repairing (bridges) in the state we should. It should be, funding isn’t the issue, and funding isn’t the issue,” Kevan Stone, executive director of the National Association of County Engineers, told the NH Journal. “There are millions of different reasons why it’s not happening, but it’s not happening, and as history has shown us, it’s going to lead to tragedy.”
Other IIJA programs, such as the $7.5 billion electric vehicle (EV) charger initiative and the $42 billion broadband build-out plan, also failed to provide advertised results despite making government cash available in large quantities.
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