Comments on: Report: States Used $6.6B in Stimulus Cash on New Roads, Not Repair http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/06/29/report-states-used-66b-in-stimulus-cash-on-new-roads-not-repair/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:32:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Dave in KY http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/06/29/report-states-used-66b-in-stimulus-cash-on-new-roads-not-repair/comment-page-1/#comment-76191 Dave in KY Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:30:07 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=7451#comment-76191 Building serious transportation was never the point of the stimulus, or at least that was not the point of it as understood by officials in Kentucky. The point was jobs. Period. In Kentucky we used a lot of it on unneeded projects. There were unneeded projects related to all modes - motoring, bike, and ped. The only place where I saw no waste was in transit, because those guys had such a backlog of serious issues to deal with. Building serious transportation was never the point of the stimulus, or at least that was not the point of it as understood by officials in Kentucky. The point was jobs. Period.

In Kentucky we used a lot of it on unneeded projects. There were unneeded projects related to all modes - motoring, bike, and ped. The only place where I saw no waste was in transit, because those guys had such a backlog of serious issues to deal with.

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