Transportation Enhancements: A Good Use Of Taxpayer Dollars?
14 October 2003 - 5:00am
Federal highway tax dollars are spent on some unlikely projects.
"Federal law requires that 10 percent of the funds distributed to states through the national Surface Transportation Program be spent on the dozen eligible categories of nice-to-have transportation enhancements...Estimable in good economic times, officials said, some enhancement projects are of more questionable value when times are tough."
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Worthwhile, or waste?
Source:
Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 11, 2003
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