Transportation Bill Special Projects

Search to find out how your state fared in the massive federal transportation spending plan.

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February 15, 2002, 8:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen


Lawmakers preparing a massive federal transportation spending plan crammed billions of dollars' worth of special projects into the bill. To help pay the tab, they dipped into discretionary transportation money paid to the states.While this means lots of federal money earmarked for new public works projects, the states get fewer dollars to spend as they see fit. AP News has provided a special search feature to help you find out how your state fared -- how much it got, how much went to special projects, which projects were added during the lawmakers' conference committee, and how much discretionary money was lost. [Editor's note: This AP site was only available for 14-days as a free archive, but now requires subscription. Contact AP for access after the free subscription period ends.]

Thanks to Linda LaSut

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