Dustup over the STIP
State transportation officials are scrambling to work out problems in the State Transportation Improvement Program, which guides all-important federal funding. Federal highway officials sent the plan back to the state for revisions and the deadline is tight for these, so there’s a lot of attention focused on the plan. There’s also a lot of finger-pointing, much of it political. Many of the needed changes appear to be minor but a point of tension is over recommendations by two municipal transportation…