There’s a bridge near me called the Queen Creek Bridge. It was built in the 1940s and carries the weight of semi trucks and passengers cars from Superior to Miami. It’s only now that it’s being replaced . It’s expected to be completed by 2026.

After our road trip to Texas, we stayed at a hotel near that Burger King sign, and walked across that bridge! Small world eh! 🇨🇦

America has pedestrian crossing bridge?!

The problem with the infrastructure repair is that federal law requires to pay the prevailing wage which is not the prevailing wage but is code talk for Union workers. In the United States it costs more to get projects done because there are a lot of unnecessary workers which are not required in Europe which also has unions. We also have a lot of institutional red tape which adds to the cost of infrastructure. The biggest problem is that politicians want to tout how they brought new things about they don't want to pay to fix things that were done by predecessors. It's just not sexy and vote getting. Until we change the regulatory structure of getting projects done and go for the Best cost and throw out the prevailing Union wage our infrastructure will always be in disrepair.

I like the little "your tax dollars at work" signs every time they add a new lane to the 405.

I was half expecting some crackhead to jump out and try to rob u. Watching the clip made me more tense then her. 😂😂😂

All the tax money is just going into corporate or government officials pockets instead of where it needs to go. Revert back to politicians needing to pay out of pocket for infrastructure to be elected since they steal our money anyways

Strange... Since anyone with half a brain knows that... Once you build something... You HAVE to maintain it... You'd have thought that our governments would have factored this in already... With our taxes etc... And keep our construction workers constantly busy... And well paid... Maintaining the bricks and mortar of Our Very Civilization! But then... Since war is unfortunately still VERY profitable for the Elites... I guess our governments would rather spend BILLIONS destroying the infrastructure of other countries! Than pay workers a decent wage to maintain ours! This upside-down... Inside-out world of ours... Needs URGENT reform!!!

You just made poor infrastructure hot😂

(politics) Neoliberalism, the current political system we live in, never cares beyond the next quarter. So any attempt to repair bridges and roads gets deferred as a "cost savings". Only to see that cost pushed onto the heads of our future selves. If we want to see stuff fixed we need to challenge our politicians to care beyond the near term.

Funny how Roman aquaducts and roads still stand after 2000 years and a few hundred years of no maintenance whatsoever but modern America? Best we can do is 6 months. The Industrial Revolution was a mistake

I'm honestly surprised you didn't get robber

I blame the FIAT currency and the massive national debt. It almost encourages incompetence and seeking hungrily for what pays soonest. If paying to maintain and repair roads has high yield quick return; then why do it?? 🤷‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

wtf youtube getting way 2 close

Capitalism baby! Oh yeah! 😎

Saying there's no plan to fix it is just wrong. Biden's infrastructure bill aims to fix a lot of these problems, it just takes a long time with this kind of scale. More than a trillion dollars is being spent on this!

Venice is the city to the south of me. Its known here as the place that was built up wayyyy to quickly and is very golf oriented and is often flooded in storms. lots of neighborhoods built but not exactly finished. Alot of the younger people there dont like it as well cause there is nothing to do for the age range. so yeah this short doesnt surprise me at all

Your country is falling apart. Was that money to Ukraine worth it?

As soon as you mentioned suburb of Detroit, I involuntary said "HAH. GOOD LUCK" I'm in a Detroit suburb, I actually am quite close to where you shot this video. I can't drive due to a few health factors and living here just sucks. Sidewalks begin and end randomly, lack of signage, drivers could care less about pedestrians. I dream of the day I can move to a pedestrian friendly city

The only way to make it better for USA is go to another country and screw them, like China. So that other countries can not build better road than USA, it will level the field

The government should stop using our money overseas

odot made speed bumps when trying to fix a highway near me lol they got sued for it

Do you know that health care and college in Israel is free to them, because we pay for it? I bet they have great roads too.

Thank you for making videos like this also, these are the issues that often go overlooked in society that end up biting us in the butt. So many great conversations happening here!

It's almost as if our taxes go to corporate welfare programs like grants, subsidies, and bailouts...

Belleville is considered a Detroit suburb?🤔

And the sadder fact is that if there was repair and matinence plans for all the infrastructure the amount of jobs would skyrocket Lotta manhours bound up in that kind of stuff Skilled trades too Both entry level and skilled labor jobs for anything from construction to vehicle operations to foremen and various other jobs Its a insane amount of different fields that goes into infrastructure work much of it taking a fair amount of skill

why do we keep building more? exactly why we keep spending more. America’s economy and culture is based off of always getting better and newer, often times leading to neglect of older commitments. It’s a majorly contributing factor to our debt being so crazy high, we always look to what new things we can get in the future, and never what old things will be needed to be taken care of in the future. This i feel applies to people too, I mean look at veterans, wanted when they’re young and “better”, but once old, they’re forgotten and left to crumble :(

The infrastructure act was but a drop in the bucket in what's actually needed. But never fear my fellow Americans. Don't worry, tRump and the republicans will repeal what President Biden and the democrats have invested in. Welcome to the 🇺🇸 💩 show!!

The "new things" we keep building are the houses/suburbs for rich people to live in separate from the rabble.

You can complain about me working in the street all summer, or you can complain about bad roads, but you're not allowed to piss and moan about both. I can't fix bad roads if I don't spend any time on them.

But the bombs wont deploy themselves

...and the rich keep getting richer. There's a lot of money, but it's not getting spent for us.

Capitalism. Construction and state contracts are big business

I worry about old bridges as a truck driver. Louisiana has some old bridges and going across that state on i10 is worrisome, i started driving over the long bridge 30 years ago.

The fall of Rome

It's because around that time greed took over and persist to this day.

This is what happens when civil engineers are involved - a cheme

In Phoenix and surrounding cities are a complete disaster. They end up tearing up what the just built because know one has a clew what the best process in building roads. They need to hire from areas they have good processes. It takes 4 times longer to build raods here compared to NW Ohio. They also tear up roads before building new roads that can divert the traffic they are going to upgrade or redo.

Because too much capitalism (I'm not a Chinese bot, it's just the truth)

To keep up appearances that smooth over the surface level glance people will give it unless something convinces them to look deeper.

Multiple State DOT's have stated they have no end goal, as they would lose funding. It's "job security" for that sector, for both the blue collar jobs and white collar jobs.

And it’s only going to get worse. Car centric infrastructure is built to fail.

Surely freedom.means options.. what if you dotn want to drive everywhere? Places should be walkable

Capitalist economical philosophy literally wants spending over mending

Selfish market Solution: if roads and bridges are not up to passing grade. They get on a to do list. A portion of town employee bonus tax money for every year is to be returned to the tax payer when the to do list is not complete.

I thought thats why they tax me so fucking high

We do have the ability to afford it. It's just that the local government doesn't have enough going to their own pockets. Not to mention when the interstate system was built, taxes for the rich were so high but have been lowered since then for the "trickle down" plan which doesn't work. They just hoard the money.

Well...we can't not send billions to Ukraine and Israel in order to maintain our own country...what sense would that make 🤣

'Why do we keep building new ones?' Now you have asked the question that no one wishes to answer, or wishes to confront the answer.