[HikikomoriWarrior]

"It is going to be a showpiece stop," Wilson said.

For sure.

[NautiNurse]

Next year, the mayor promises to provide bus service for the showpiece bus stop.

[xJones]

It should named the "Ted Stevens Bustop", to follow the example of the former KKK Klegle, aka Senator Robert Byrd, who's named every pork-barrel project he could squeeze through for West Virginia after himself.

[bd476]

LOL!

This sounds like a plot for a B movie which goes from post-production to video sales to write-off in two weeks.

[Montfort]

Every time the tax and spenders tell us about preserving "core services," let's remember this mentality.

The darned guy is worried about seeming "ungrateful" to the legislator who took the money from the taxpayers-- Ted Stevens.

Meanwhile, countless people work hard for their money, only to have it taken and spent by these politicos of both parties.

My family's federal taxes are very low due to the child tax credit, so I am not the victim. But other taxpayers are getting screwed for this pork barrel spending.

I am sure that the lady standing there at the cash register for long hours, processing countless transactions each day, is proud to have her entire year's taxes, and those of many other folks like here, go to pay for this one posh bus stop.

No one sends her a thank you note for working several months to pay for a chunk of this bus stop. But Alaskan politicos will bow down and kiss some legislator's butt and beg for more pork.

[redhead]

""It is going to be a showpiece stop," Wilson said. For sure."

up there in Anchorage, for instance, conditions are different than they are elsewhere. Heated sidewalks don't seem like a very practical idea where there is little snow or ice, or winter is a short season, but in Anchorage, where there can be snow on the ground for 7 or 8 months of the year, they are a very practical consideration for a public waiting area.

[marblehead17]

ping

[agitator]

Just name it the Robert C. Byrd Memorial Bus Stop and suddenly there won't be enough money for it.

[null and void]

Just because it's going to be expensive doesn't mean it will be pretty...

$500,000.00

[jigsaw]

"If done right, the expanded museum and improved bus stop
could anchor a new eastern edge to the downtown area,
drawing ... more workers from the federal building ...

Maybe they'll draw 'em all out and they won't return.

[festus]

So is Senator Stevens envisioning a high speed rail system stretching across alaksa connecting all igloos together ?

[The Great RJ]

Officials in Sioux Falls spent that much for a park entrance. In three years of "planning" no one thought about how people were going to get into the park since the only access was across an active railroad track. When the railroad balked at a grade crossing, the city just spent $1.5 million to build an underpass...including $400,000 of cost overruns. Needless to say the planners of this fiasco were not reprimanded or fired.

[mirkwood]

bus stop at GITMO http://www.ozarkwarriors.com/frame_pages/cuba.htm