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Re: Highway Funds & Drinking
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:32:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Victor Knight writes:
> > Because US Congress, overstepping their bounds as usual, attatched a
> > conditional to highway funds so that if a state had a lower drinking age
> > than 21, they would not get the highway funds. (Of course the money comes
> > from the citizens of the states in the first place..)
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> Heh-- not always :) If you recall recently there was a big hubbub about
> Mass's jynormous highway project, the Big Dig, and whether or not to cut of
> federal funds since the project was ridiculously over budget and overdue. I
> think it's the largest budgeted road construction project in US history...
Geez, and we just lost $10 million in Federal pork for our Manhattan Bridge
which is only a $2 billion refurbushing. I bet it went to Boston (oink oink).
-Erik
-surviving Week 1 of the Manhattan Bridge "biggest subway reroute ever seen
in New York City" project. Hey, if everybody affected by the rerouting this
week alone had put a dollar in the turnstile, we'd have that $10 million all
of a sudden....
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| (...) Heh-- not always :) If you recall recently there was a big hubbub about Mass's jynormous highway project, the Big Dig, and whether or not to cut of federal funds since the project was ridiculously over budget and overdue. I think it's the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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