WASHINGTON — Within days of the 2020 presidential election, President-elect Joe Biden received a blunt reminder of the challenges ahead when a bridge that has come to symbolize the nation’s outdated infrastructure caught fire.
Long before the Nov. 11 collision of two semi-trailers on the Brent Spence Bridge, which links Cincinnati and northern Kentucky, that bridge was offered by both President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump as a visible reminder of the nation’s badly outdated infrastructure. Both vowed to fix it; neither got it done.
Now it’s up to Biden, who, like his predecessors, has listed infrastructure as a top priority in his administration.
He enters the process facing the same hurdles that Trump and Obama found ultimately insurmountable.