“Six months from now,” [Vice-President] Biden said, “if the verdict on this effort is that we’ve wasted the money, we built things that were unnecessary, or we’ve done things that are legal but make no sense, then, folks, don’t look for any help from the federal government for a long while.”
Unfortunately, the stimulus funds that are being distributed for infrastructure are not all being spent on high-speed rail and state-of-the-art projects. Many of those dollars are being wasted on highway expansions, extensions, and “enhancements” that may create jobs, but do nothing to solve our serious infrastructure problems. In order to put people to work, the government has stipulated that the funds must be spent quickly and in many cases that translates into the funds being spent carelessly because the plans for ill-conceived projects, which were originally created years ago, are ready to go.
This article, Highways to Nowhere: The 7 Most Ridiculous Roads Being Built in America, by Yonah Freemark, posted on the website, The Infrastructurist: America Under Construction, highlights a few of the worst projects that your tax dollars are likely to be sunk into and then promptly paved over.
June 14, 2009
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