If the light rail works wouldn't it reduce the need for bridges and lower the traffic and increase the safety? Also, just because money is spent on item A it doesn't mean that item B would have had any more attention to it. In short, the connection you are making is a logical fallacy.
Right.
Instead, I’d worry more about the lunacy of the public teat. Payouts to selfish morons and greedy businesses are not only sucking the well dry, they are unconstitutional in principle. Gov. just shouldn’t be handing out money to anyone.
The first dollar in any transportation budget -must- be allocated to maintaining the current infrastructure SO BRIDGES JUST DON’T FALL FROM THE SKY.
Except that only works if the light rail is going to take people where they would normally use their cars to cross the bridges anyway. The MN light rail project doesn’t go anywhere near this bridge, so the comparison is not a fallacy.