CNN is doing a report right now on the first project funded by the stimulus, replacing a bridge in Tuscumbia, Misssouri. The bridge had to be closed to large trucks in 2007 because of structural concerns.
If you're wondering where that is, it's about three hours from St. Louis. The population in the 2000 census? 218.
No, I didn't forget a number in there. The town's population is "several hundred" now.
They're quoting the mayor of St. Louis, complaining that the first project in the state is using the money for a site, "in the middle of nowhere, and nowhere on the road to recovery."
From the AP's report: "It's so remote that Missouri transportation officials brought a special satellite truck to allow highway commissioners to meet and award the bridge construction contract."
$8.5 million well spent!
Hope. Change. Boondoggle.
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