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Posted on 02/26/2009 8:16:48 AM PST by NormsRevenge
About $90 million in stimulus funds will be headed to Santa Clara County, with most of the cash going toward repairing pavement, buying hybrid buses and installing metering lights along Interstate 280 through San Jose.
The money was part of the $490 million approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission on Wednesday, the first local allocation following the signing of the historic $787 billion stimulus bill last week by President Barack Obama. While there were no high-profile South Bay projects approved for this first infusion of federal money, officials came away feeling they had positioned themselves to capture more money down the road.
"I felt we did well," said Supervisor Ken Yeager, an MTC board member, saying that funding formulas based on population worked in the county's favor. "While we had no big gains, neither did we have any losses."
South Bay officials hope their support for expensive funding improvements on Doyle Drive and the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco, plus a BART connection to the Oakland airport, could result in regional backing for Santa Clara County's most pressing needs.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Obama forecasts $1.75 trillion deficit this year
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Wish they’d use some of that money for something more important than public transit, like cleaning up and restoring Hangar One at the old NAS Moffett Field.
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