About $90 million in stimulus funds will be headed to Santa Clara County, with most of the cash going toward repairing pavement, buying hybrid buses and installing metering lights along Interstate 280 through San Jose. The money was part of the $490 million approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission on Wednesday, the first local allocation following the signing of the historic $787 billion stimulus bill last week by President Barack Obama. While there were no high-profile South Bay projects approved for this first infusion of federal money, officials came away feeling they had positioned themselves to capture more money down...
