[bgill]

"Houston is booming. The construction going on is astounding, road building, strip centers, highrise buildings, houses of all price ranges. New stores and business everywhere you look. Amazing!"

Same with Austin. There's urban sprawl everywhere. New subdivisions going in every day. They just poured a 0.9 mile sidewalk, um, "urban trail" is the fancy dancy nice eco-friendly green name, that cost the taxpayers $1.4 million dollars -

To the untrained eye it may look like a big, long sidewalk. But no, this is a nearly mile long "urban trail," one worthy of speeches at a podium, a ceremonial ribbon cutting and -- of course -- a hefty price tag. Linda Watson, CEO of Capital Metro says, "With engineering, design, construction, landscaping, the grant we received was $1.4 million and we got this beautiful 10-foot-wide sidewalk and the canopy of trees that we're going to have."

http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/cap-metro-unveils-14-million-urban-trail-10941.shtml

[GeronL]

$1.4 million for a concrete trail??

[Right Wing Assault]

That’s $30 a square foot.