Stumping for Transportation

Check out the blog this comment is based upon at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/05/Public-Transit-Gets-a-Boost/

Hey, I will admit that I like Ray LaHood. Today's news talking about the $8.4 billion for infrastructure projects in the Recovery Act. This blog seems to be about reminding people about this. I do have to say it is a little difficult to tell what projects, specifically, this money is going toward. The blog redirects you to the Department of Transportation press release, which includes a link to recovery.gov (if I had stuck with the WHB to the end, I could have directly gone to the recovery.gov). From there I picked "more info" then I chose a state, "Illinois" which yielded a simple table of money distributed by region, then I chose the other link, which allowed me to look at a PDF/picture of a letter from the Governor of Illinois certifying the use of federal funds. Then I had to manually type in the web address to the Illinois government website. At this point I find myself looking at the extensive transportation reports prepared by Illinois. I am sure that sifting those extensive reports I will then have a clear idea of the specific projects the Recovery money is going toward. I hope.