Well the interesting thing to me is that they did not identify what VDOT districts had which unspent money that the Gov has essentially clawed back to reallocate.

For many years – VDOT districts had way more projects on their 6 yr plans that they could possibly fund and build but each time a locality wanted a road – VDOT would dutifully put it on the list and rather than prioritizing and building only a few – in a timely manner – they spread the money out across the projects each year but that strategy pushed many projects to longer time frames.. many to a decade or even longer.

Federal money has to be obligated within a certain window or it reverts back to the Fed who re-allocates it.

It’s called Bonus Obligation money

So I suspect that some of this money was stranded money for projects that could not go forward without more money so the money already allocated just sat there and the projects delayed – actually got more expensive because of inflation.

Really bad system in my view.

So my understanding is now that Va is instituting a Federal approach to the money – that the VDOT districts have to obligate the money within a certain time-frame or the money goes back to Richmond and reallocated.

This might help but it’s almost too late since construction money is almost non-existent unless it comes from the Feds and my understanding is that – that sources is about to dry up also.

DEAN: any objections to Spotsylvania County’s CTB member, Mary Lee Carter? She also stands with the County Planning Commission, as Supv.Gary Skinner’s point guard in all things called the Massaponax Corridor ands leads the way to the County’s Lee’s Hill District’s recognized UDA platforms from Cosners Corner, to his hospital, built by Silver, through Tricord’s and Johnson’s land holdings, to Spotsylvania County’s VRE Station to the intersection of Rts, 2 and 17, with water and sewer lines being extended by the County, to the FASA (soccer complex-15 years in the making) on Rt.2 and all the way to the Fredericksburg City Limits.

After you finish reading some part of the transportation jargon, you should fall back on their book of acronyms and start connecting the dots. The jargon is only meant to confuse 95% of the Virginia population. The papers wouldn’t touch the language of transportation with a 10 foot pole; too many layers of Local, State and Federal money management and too many players to keep up with, but ALL are well placed within the Transportation and Land-use agendas and management circles. Any questions? Call on FAMPO, GWRC or FAMPO’s Toll Road Authority. They remain 6 months ahead of any public interest in these serious issues and by the time the public learns anything of what’s going on, the vote has already been taken. How’s that for accountability and transparency and VAMPO is already taking shape to being another layer of transportation dialogue and land-use development.

Sorry to be the one to tell you, but this hole only gets deeper and darker. Carry a flash lite on your person at all times, night and day. It’s not as if the truth is hard to find. Most of the time it’s just sitting there WAITING to be found, OR FOUND OUT.

Larry: give me a little more time to translate what you’ve contributed to this discussion. Not as yet sure what’s drying up or turned into dust, but this $1.45 BILLION “found money” bears some serious consideration on whether our Government, LOCAL, State and Federal have a clue what they are “saying” to the public, but not “telling”

QUESTION: Are WE always going to be the last to know when hell freezes over?