Brandon Howard, who is charged with shooting three people early Wednesday morning near the Gateway Arch, is now accused of shooting two other people in June 2021.
for ship traffic, it needs to swing open to let barges through. sometimes when it closes, the rails need to be manually sledge hammered back into place. this increases cost and commerce. i went down to louisiana and saw the i-10 bridge. i stood with the mayor and looked at that bridge. it s 20 years past the planned life. it s handling more than double the number of crossings it was designed to handle, and it s two lanes narrower than the interstate that feeds into it, causing backups and accidents. today the secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg is in philadelphia at the martin luther king bridge. the bridge is no longer safe for vehicles, even though it used to carry 25,000 vehicles a day. as we prepare to celebrate dr. king s birthday, we remember too often bridges are cutting off
families, churches and businesses. we re going to use our infrastructure investments to reconnect communities. one thing i m certain of. everyone out there knows what i m talking about. people have written me about bridges they depend on. one man told me that the bridge he traveled on every day is a tragedy waiting to happen. one woman wrote that a bridge near the center of her town had to be closed, and now now drivers and tourists bypass downtown consequently devastating local buses, and one person wrote to mow to say, quote, this is your chance to show the people in my area that they matter to you, end of quote. i hear you. i hear you. you do matter to me, and we are going to get it done. my infrastructure law includes a total of $40 billion in funding for bridge improvements. $12.5 billion that have is going to replace the most economically significant bridges in the country. these are bridges like, and i ve seen them, the brent spence