Winston-Salem Journal headline:
Money will start trickling in on Wednesday; use it wisely or else, Obama warns states
Or else what? And when President Obama says ‘use it wisely,’ does that mean Greensboro’s downtown greenway?
“Federal folks are doing due diligence right now, checking on the readiness of the projects,” Dabney Sanders, the greenway project manager, said Monday. “If we get the stimulus money, we have construction drawings and are ready to go on that phase.”
The section under consideration for the stimulus money runs just north of Lee Street along Freeman Mill Road to Spring Garden Street, a distance of 1,450 feet. Costing about $1.1 million, it would be the second phase of the 5-to-10-year project.
Work should begin next Monday on the first phase. That section will cost $1.3 million and run from the ramp at Freeman Mill through the Greensboro College sports campus south of Lee Street to South Eugene Street, a distance of 1,800 feet, about one-third of a mile.
Use it wisely or else. That’s about as laughable as Sen. Kay Hagan saying “you cannot frivolously spend money that is not yours in the first place.”
