During the the summer, I was pretty indignant about the total failure of government when the Minneapolis bridge collapsed.
In my opinion, we can expect a similar failure of government when the Brent Spence Bridge collapses into the Ohio River.
Yesterday, officials from Covington, Kentucky tried to ban trucks on the bridge because of the safety hazard they present. If you've ever driven the bridge, you know what they are talking about.
Here's the deal. Every city, state and federal government official knows this bridge is substandard and obsolete for the traffic it receives on a daily basis. So how close are we to getting the problem solved?
(silence)
No where. We don't even have a plan to start the plan yet.
I would wage a bet. If you polled people in this city they would overwhelmingly approve of spending money on that bridge over, say, sound walls along the interstate.
As far as I'm concerned, every politician is responsible for each and every death that occurs on that bridge until there's a plan to replace it.
And people want these same folks to manage our health care.
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