Bridges are Failing and So Are Our Politicians

In Pennsylvania, 5,906 bridges are deficient—and 22,773,880 vehicles cross those bridges every day. Meanwhile, 8.2 percent of Pennsylvanians are jobless.


With so many Pennsylvanians out of work and so many bridges and other pieces of critical infrastructure in need of work, there’s a simple solution: Congress must pass legislation putting jobless Americans to work fixing critical infrastructure—bridges, schools, roads, ports and more.

Call Representative Shuster. Tell him that America is ready to get to work on our bridges, transit, rail, airports, highways, schools and the rest of our failing infrastructure.

These projects don’t just create good jobs for the people who do the original work—though that’s a big part of why they are important right now. They also make our economy perform better in the long term by increasing productivity. And they make America and our state better, safer places to live.

When you fly to Shanghai, you land in a brand-new airport, you have high-speed broadband access from the moment you arrive and you can get on a high-speed train in the arrival terminal that will take you directly to downtown Shanghai at speeds faster than 100 miles per hour.

This just isn’t available in any U.S. city. But we can change that. We can meet these standards—and beat them. But only if our leaders rise to the challenge.