Pennsylvania Infrastructure Report Shows Grade Inflation

It's not just our public schools. There's grade inflation everywhere. Just look at this article - Pennsylvania's roads and bridges get a grade of D - a passing grade. Have you been on Pennsylvania's roads and bridges? No passing grades here. There are bridges in Pennsylvania that look like this:


And as for the ones made of cement, many of them are in various terminal stages of crumble.


And Pennsylvania's navigable waterways waterways are even worse, meriting a D- grade. But still passing. I suppose they only way they'd fail them is if the rivers completely dried up.



The railways got a B. But that's only because Sir Topham Hat threatened to kidnap this little girl and take his railway to Kansas City if he doesn't get gambling revenues to build a new state of the art roundhouse.



Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler criticized the grades, saying that they should be inflated further. "We've been trying really hard lately, and I was sure we were going to get extra credit this time," he said.

Look, I just found your extra credit report, Mr. Secretary!