I checked the TxDOT bridge report out of curiosity.
"Out of 55,000 Bridges in Texas, Only 787 (1.4%) are in Poor Condition—much lower than the national average.
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/library/reports/gov/bri...
"Out of 55,000 Bridges in Texas, Only 787 (1.4%) are in Poor Condition—much lower than the national average.
https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/library/reports/gov/bri...
Well, other than a very roundabout warning for Texas to continue to invest in their infrastructure even if the oil and refinery money starts to go.
One extremely major difference between bridges located in Pittsburgh and Texas is that Texas does not need to salt its roads. Municipalities that salt their bridges are literally demolishing them with chemicals.
Infrastructure is not simple, and localities have different challenges. Sure, Texas may have bridges in better conditions, but when the snowstorm hit last year I didn’t go running around saying “Dang the city of Austin has only one snowplow?”
(Okay, actually I did, but only as a “that makes perfect sense, no wonder this snowstorm hit so hard here even though it didn’t seem bad by my standards, we have no infrastructure or general cultural understanding of what to do, it makes sense that this is a terrible storm here even if it wouldn’t have been a big deal back home.”)