President Joe Biden made an unscheduled visit to the site of a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh on Friday afternoon, during a trip originally meant to tout his legislative agenda — including the landmark infrastructure law he signed last year.

“We saw today, when a bridge is in disrepair, it literally can threaten lives,” Biden said in a speech at Carnegie Mellon University’s Mill 19, just a few miles from the collapsed bridge.

The bridge, said Biden, “had been rated in poor condition for the past 10 years.”

President Joe Biden on Friday touted the bipartisan infrastructure package that he signed into law in November, while also addressing the dramatic bridge collapse in Pittsburgh that occurred just hours before he arrived in the city.

Fern Hollow Bridge near Frick Park, the site of the collapse, had been rated in "poor condition" for the last 10 years, Biden said. Across the country, 45,000 bridges are in poor condition, a number Biden called "unacceptable."

The second visit to Pittsburgh of Joe Biden’s presidency — this one touting his administration’s investment into the nation’s crumbling infrastructure — came as the city continued to reel from one of its bridges collapsing Friday morning.

Mr. Biden, a Scranton native, stopped at the site of the bridge collapse in Frick Park shortly after landing at Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin, before heading to Hazelwood’s Mill 19 on Friday afternoon. The Hazelwood visit was planned earlier this week but took on a new importance after the bridge collapse.