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Transportation Enhancements: A Good Use Of Taxpayer Dollars?

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: C. P. Zilliacus
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."

Full Story: Worthwhile, or waste?
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 11, 2003
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