The review is over. The feds have approved the project.
Why? Because it doesn't just benefit Microsoft, but a wider area that is one of the biggest, most congested job centers on the west coast, and it is a public road, not just a road to Microsoft.
Microsoft will pay for half of it - rare in public works. The DC media likes to make hay about corporate fat cats. How stupid is that? Many hundreds of thousands of people will benefit from the new public bridge for decades.
Jobs to build it will be on the street soon, thanks, in part, to Microsoft.
It is a win, win. Let the DC grandstanders sit in the traffic. They'd change their tune. Follow the money. It looks like a good deal.
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The review is over. The feds have approved the project. Why? Because it doesn't just benefit Microsoft, but a wider area that is one of the biggest, most congested job centers on the west coast, and it is a public road, not just a road to Microsoft. Microsoft will pay for half of it - rare in public works. The DC media likes to make hay about corporate fat cats. How stupid is that? Many hundreds of thousands of people will benefit from the new public bridge for decades. Jobs to build it will be on the street soon, thanks, in part, to Microsoft. It is a win, win. Let the DC grandstanders sit in the traffic. They'd change their tune. Follow the money. It looks like a good deal.