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Quote by: Technosoul  The fear of socialsim and so called "pork projects" means that our nation's interstructure will just continue to crumble due to no maintanence. Anyway the bridge is part of a federal highway that runs through a lot of different states. Products transported on those interstate highways are needed by people in all the states where those highways pass through, it embodies our total and national transportation system overviewed in Washington DC. |
It doesn't matter that it's part of the federal highway system, maintaining roads and bridges is the responsibility of local and state governments. If there is no maintenance happening to roads and bridges then it's the fault of the states and localities and
not the federal government! Again, there is a federal highway trust fund (which is not a pork project any more than the Social Security trust fund is) from which states can receive additional funds for such things as repairing interstate highways and bridges. Here is some information on the Federal Highway Trust Fund:
Highway Trust Fund