Virginia is slated to receive about $700 million in transportation funding through the federal stimulus package. According to a story in the Examiner, so far the Virginia Department of Transportation has allocated about $176 million of that money to various road and bridge projects around the Commonwealth. Of that $176 million however, only a little over $11 million is slated to go to projects in Northern Virginia, and of those projects, exactly zero are in the economic engine localities of Fairfax, Arlington or Alexandria.

Granted $176 million is only a fraction of the total VDOT will be spending as part of the stimulus, so NoVa could still get its fair share, but given Richmond’s history of ignoring what Northern Virginia wants, it seems worth pointing out that starving your economic engine is NOT a good way to stimulate the economy