highway in poor condition. as i was talking to your person, gov, also, we ll get the railroad going too. i m a rail guy. anyway, pittsburgh is a city of bridges, but too many of them are in poor condition like this bridge behind me. but we re doing something about it. this is one of 24 bridges across the country being repaired this year because of the law. for skpaem pell, the allegheny county worked under way to repair the bridges of the boulevard and the allies, not just bridges though. just outside of pittsburgh we re investing $850 million to replace and expand a 100-year-old montgomery lokshen dam. that s critical to the nation s economy. that investment is going to increase the capacity of this system, the lok, at over 50% at
gov, also get the railroad going too. i m a rail guy. anyway, pittsburgh s a city of bridges. but too many of them are in poor condition like this bridge behind me before it collapsed. with the bipartisan infrastructure law, we re doing something about it. this is just one of 2,400 bridges across the country that are being repaired just this year because of this law. for example, the allegheny county works underway to repair the bridges of the boulevard of the allies. not just bridges though. just outside pittsburgher investing $850 million to replace and expand dam that is critical to the nation s economy. and we re investing, that investment is going to increase the capacity of this system, at a critical choke point in the river. that means we will be able to move an additional 14,000 barges
somebody who obviously comes out of the labor movement and can identify with all of the leaders who were arguing for some pretty simple things in this contract. i think if you look at it, you know, they wanted some paid sick time, they wanted to be able to go to the doctor and not be criticized for it or docked for it. so marty walsh could get into the details and he was the right guy. and then they have pete buttigieg working on contingency plans. but this is like the economic and political sweet spot for biden. rail guy. he s obviously amtrak joe. when he talked just now about the actual physical backbone of the country, it made me smile because i think that he thinks that way and it is true. i mean, we don t all you and i don t think that much about the importance of freight rail, it seems sort of old fashioned, but it is the critical backbone 6 of moving all the things he said. chlorine for water, coal for electricity plants, and food,
we ll truly transform this nation. historic investments in passenger rail. everybody says biden is a rail guy. that s true, but passenger rail and freight rail and public transit, it s going to make hundreds of thousands take hundreds of thousands of vehicles off the road saving millions of barrels of oil. everybody knows all the studies show if you can get from point a to point b on electric rail, you won t drive your car. you ll take the rail service. we ll also learn that in most major cities in america, minority populations, the jobs they used to have in town, they are now out of town. roughly 60% of the folks, they don t have vehicles so they need to have the means to get out of town to their jobs, to be on time. that s this will do that like it did for detroit. 95% of the 840,000 school buses in america run on diesel.
bipartisan infrastructure bill it will truly transform this nation. historic investments in passenger rail. everybody says biden is a rail guy. that s true. passenger rail and freight rail and public transit will make hundreds of thousands take hundreds of vehicles off the road saving millions of barrels of oil. everybody knows all the studies show if you can get from point a to point b in electric rail you won t drive your car. you will take the rail service. we also learned that in most major cities in america, when minority populations the jobs are now out of town. roughly 60% of the folks don t have vehicles so they need to have a means to get out of town to their jobs to be on time. that s what will will do that like it did for detroit. 95% of the 840,000 school buses