Could you please omit swipes from your comments here? You're making a good point and the swipe spoils it.

On HN, we want curious conversation in which people are thoughtful and respectful toward each other. The idea is to collaborate in figuring out the truth together. I know it often seems like other people don't care about that, but a lot of this is an artifact of the medium, because internet comments lack the out-of-band signals that we normally rely on to evaluate other people's intentions.

Also, it's easy to perceive (and/or imagine) bad faith in others, and easy to underestimate the equivalent in oneself by 10x or more. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Most bridges in Texas are less than 40 years old and 38% are less than 20 years old. This bridge was 50 years old and many bridges in Pittsburg are similarly old.

Coincidentally, bridges have a 50-75 year lifespan. It's probably on the lower end in areas with tons of cold weather, salt and ice. Texas has less deteriorating weather in general. Hence the whole "northern cars turn to rust buckets" meme.

Also, this corresponds to Pittsburg's heyday being 50 years ago.

The counting methods of "bridges" don't seem to match between the sites.

Pennslyvania's average age of a bridge is over 50 years old, where Texas lists only half of their bridges being over 40 years old.

https://www.penndot.gov/ProjectAndPrograms/Bridges/pages/def...

So Pennslyvania's clearly got a problem, but Pittsburg (and the state on the whole) gets more rain and far more snow and ice, so even if they were the same age, it doesn't really seem comparable.

Not saying I disagree necessarily but fwiw the weather in Texas is quite easier on infrastructure than in PA. Texas also hasn't seen the industry woes that other states have in the past century. And just because Texas has the most bridges of any state doesn't detract from the fact that Pittsburgh still has its own high number of bridges.

Texas is also in a lot of places new build. They will face the same problems when oil for fuel is obsolete (probably within 15 years).

The GP's comment was specific to Pittsburgh, what is the narrative that you believe would unfairly catch Texas in its net?