Critics slam Microsoft bridge as waste of stimulus money
31st March 2009
“Pork barrel! Get your pork barrel here!”
Should a bridge that would connect two campuses at Microsoft’s headquarters be funded with $11 million from the federal stimulus package?
Or maybe Bill Gates’ pocket change?
Marchione applied for federal stimulus money after costs jumped on the project from $25 million to $36 million. Marchione says the increase in costs were due to a rise in construction prices and because the bridge will be built on a diagonal in order to connect Microsoft’s original East campus with a newer West campus that are split by a public highway.
Sounds fishy to me.