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Stimulating Bridges

Who'll pay to fix the Stadium overpass?

by James Leonard

posted 5/16/2009

Will the feds pay for new bridges on East Stadium Boulevard? Homayoon Pirooz, head of the city’s Public Services Department, sure hopes so. He points out that January’s economic stimulus bill includes “$1.5 billion for surface transportation infrastructure capital improvements.” The city needs to snag $24 million of it to replace the paired bridges just east of

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