"The Recovery Act creates jobs by investing in immediate projects such as highways, bridges and tunnels — and within limitations to prevent waste, fraud, and ‘highways to nowhere’ — grants the states and their citizens broad discretion to choose which highway projects get funding."
--Nick Shapiro, White House Spokesman, in an article by Mike Cooper in the New York Times about a Texas plan to use $181 million of federal stimulus money to build a 15-mile, four-lane toll road through the Katy Prairie outside of Houston
Cooper writes: "The road exemplifies an unintended effect of the stimulus law: an administration that opposes suburban sprawl is giving money to states for projects that are almost certain to exacerbate it."
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