$1.5 million for bus stop
Bob in Tampa
Anchorage gets $1.5 million for bus stop
Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Tom Wilson is faced with a problem many city
administrators would envy. How to spend $1.5 million on a bus stop?
When done, the bus stop next to the Anchorage Museum of History and Art will
be like no other in the city, said Anchorage's director of public
transportation.
"It is going to be a showpiece stop," Wilson said.
Wilson has $1.5 million to spend on the bus stop thanks to Alaska Sen. Ted
Stevens - commonly referred to by Alaskans as "Uncle Ted" for his ability to
secure federal money for his home state.
The money for the bus stop was contained in funding for intermodal
transportation facilities in the huge $388 billion government spending bill
passed by Congress last November. Stevens was head of the Senate
Appropriations Committee at the time.
Leo
Can anybody stop this insanity???
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