Highway officials representing a dozen states took time out from a two-day conference to praise the $26.8 billion federal stimulus spending on state roads and bridges. The highway program is part of the $787 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
3.4% of the total that was actually stimulating.
The stimulus program directed at roads and bridges has been a "smashing success," said John Horsley, executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, during a news conference Tuesday at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi.
Mississippi accomplished about six months of road and bridge construction beyond its regularly scheduled work with the federal funding, said Larry "Butch" Brown, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation. The news conference on the highway spending was made during a meeting of the Southeastern Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, which was attended by about 1,200 people.
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