KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana |Big stimulus bucks going to Sebastian County, Ark.
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Associated Press - July 8, 2009 5:44 PM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Federal figures show that Sebastian County is the big winner in the stimulus-money sweepstakes for Arkansas highways, with Pulaski County a distant second.
The federal Transportation Department lists 65 highway projects in Arkansas as guaranteed to get stimulus funding, with a total cost of nearly $135 million. 6 of those projects cost more than $10 million - and Sebastian County has 2 of those six.
Those two projects - totaling $24.8 million - both involve new construction on a north-south road east of Fort Smith, on land that was formerly part of Fort Chaffee and is now being developed for commercial and industrial use. The highway being built, called the Chaffee Crossing, will eventually become part of Interstate 49, a major connector between Kansas City and Interstate 20 at Shreveport, La.
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