Reply #2: I see it at work everywhere ...

[RoyGBiv]

Much to my surprise, I noticed the main access road near my mother's housing addition was being rebuilt -- not repaved but rebuilt -- when I visited at Christmas. It needed it, badly. It was horrible. The foundation was mislaid initially, and you had the wash-board effect whenever you drove down it. It was crumbling, riddled with potholes, and had become a street people avoided, thus killing all the businesses on it.

This will improve things in the area well after the stimulus money itself is spent.