Ruling out purposeful sabotage (for now) I can say with near certainty that it was from lack of maintanence. I driven that stretch of I95 more times than I can recall but the upkeep of all the highways in and around Philly has always been abysmal. But, I can see climate change be blamed somehow
It's rather unnerving to consider the degree to which one is trusting infrastructure when one drives. There's this really tall bridge we go over when we drive from western NY to CT that just looks terrible. Is it safe? Or is the money that ought to be used to repair it being used instead to enrich bureaucrats or study the mating habits of colobus moneys while they are high on cocaine, or whatever?
Never trusted bridges cuz, yea who knows the condition. This type of thing was supposed to be fixed too. After that major bridge collapse back during Obama yrs all sorts of money was handed out to fix it. Turns out a bridge I used my whole life needed complete reconstruction. As for the obvious gov malfeasance, being from PA and knowing how these clowns operate, I can only assume it became a pissing match between Harrisburg and Philly as to who should take responsibility. Can bet both took the money though.
If private businesses were this incompetent, no one would put up with it and they would go out of business. But no one ever takes the gun out of government's hand, so they get to just go on doing it endlessly, with impunity. Maaaayyyybe some individual politician eventually loses his job, but the system never dies.
'Maaaayyyybe some individual politician eventually loses his job, but the system never dies.'
This is a major part of the problem with things like this. Nobody is ever held accountable. And that rare individual that does lose a job, almost always ends up with a nice cozy lobbyist job or something similar.
Yep. But it's not just a problem with things like this—it is a fundamental problem with our whole system of governance. I do not believe there are any tweaks that can be made to fix it, either. It's baked into the cake.
Oh no disagreement with that at all. Its definitely a feature, not a bug. And as I am certain you know, the typical 'vote harder next time' mindset that is all too rampant sure as hell ain't fixing anything and almost always makes it worse. Not to absolve the powers who ought not be of anything, but voters, especially the ones who do so when they know elections are rigged in one way or another, are the biggest roadblock to getting anything fixed. The way I see it, if one willingly participates in something they know is fraudulent, that fraud is consented to and as such can't really be called fraud from that point on. That mindset is truly perplexing to me. Truly cult mentality.
Ruling out purposeful sabotage (for now) I can say with near certainty that it was from lack of maintanence. I driven that stretch of I95 more times than I can recall but the upkeep of all the highways in and around Philly has always been abysmal. But, I can see climate change be blamed somehow
It's rather unnerving to consider the degree to which one is trusting infrastructure when one drives. There's this really tall bridge we go over when we drive from western NY to CT that just looks terrible. Is it safe? Or is the money that ought to be used to repair it being used instead to enrich bureaucrats or study the mating habits of colobus moneys while they are high on cocaine, or whatever?
Never trusted bridges cuz, yea who knows the condition. This type of thing was supposed to be fixed too. After that major bridge collapse back during Obama yrs all sorts of money was handed out to fix it. Turns out a bridge I used my whole life needed complete reconstruction. As for the obvious gov malfeasance, being from PA and knowing how these clowns operate, I can only assume it became a pissing match between Harrisburg and Philly as to who should take responsibility. Can bet both took the money though.
If private businesses were this incompetent, no one would put up with it and they would go out of business. But no one ever takes the gun out of government's hand, so they get to just go on doing it endlessly, with impunity. Maaaayyyybe some individual politician eventually loses his job, but the system never dies.
'Maaaayyyybe some individual politician eventually loses his job, but the system never dies.'
This is a major part of the problem with things like this. Nobody is ever held accountable. And that rare individual that does lose a job, almost always ends up with a nice cozy lobbyist job or something similar.
Yep. But it's not just a problem with things like this—it is a fundamental problem with our whole system of governance. I do not believe there are any tweaks that can be made to fix it, either. It's baked into the cake.
We need a new cake.
Oh no disagreement with that at all. Its definitely a feature, not a bug. And as I am certain you know, the typical 'vote harder next time' mindset that is all too rampant sure as hell ain't fixing anything and almost always makes it worse. Not to absolve the powers who ought not be of anything, but voters, especially the ones who do so when they know elections are rigged in one way or another, are the biggest roadblock to getting anything fixed. The way I see it, if one willingly participates in something they know is fraudulent, that fraud is consented to and as such can't really be called fraud from that point on. That mindset is truly perplexing to me. Truly cult mentality.