Max: The Squeaky Wheel
Saint Louis Beacon - MoDOT shuffles money for the St. Louis area
The St. Louis area may have gotten another road project to be paid for by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (economic stimulus package) while funding for two other projects will be reduced from original estimates.
The Missouri Department of Transportation this afternoon released an 'updated' lists of projects the agency is considering for stimulus package funding and will review it for the public at a briefing at 6 p.m. today at the agency's District 6 office, 1590 Woodlake Drive in Chesterfield.
On the new list are three projects not mentioned in MoDOT's 'provisional' list unveiled at a recent East-West Gateway Council of Governments meeting. At that meeting St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay complained that the $5 million the agency was allotting to work in the city of St. Louis was not enough especially, he said, because the federal government has said economically distressed areas should be given priority in assigning the stimulus funds.
The St. Louis area may have gotten another road project to be paid for by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (economic stimulus package) while funding for two other projects will be reduced from original estimates.
The Missouri Department of Transportation this afternoon released an 'updated' lists of projects the agency is considering for stimulus package funding and will review it for the public at a briefing at 6 p.m. today at the agency's District 6 office, 1590 Woodlake Drive in Chesterfield.
On the new list are three projects not mentioned in MoDOT's 'provisional' list unveiled at a recent East-West Gateway Council of Governments meeting. At that meeting St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay complained that the $5 million the agency was allotting to work in the city of St. Louis was not enough especially, he said, because the federal government has said economically distressed areas should be given priority in assigning the stimulus funds.
posted by Max Dobberstein at 3/10/2009 04:25:00 PM
3 Comments:
So why isn't MetroLink getting any money?
And are we really "economically distressed" enough to be given priority?
OK- My word verification to post that was "limpsemi". *giggle*
Not priority, just a fairer slice.
And Metro isn't getting any money because public transit is a satanic, commie plot created by the gays.
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