If it aint broke, fix it, that way you look like you are doing something good. This is kinda like taking a product and giving it a new color and a few minor cosmetic changes and then state you fixed it or created it yourself.

Any wonder the obama stimulus failed to stimulate?

Bet on it -

They'll be back in less than a year to install traffic lights on that corner & have to redo the job.  It's how they roll.

Just think, they will eventually need to put traffic cams in too ... another major overhall in the making. I guess this gives a new meaning to shovel ready jobs. We had our perfectly good light poles replaced twice now ... and they are rusting as well as one would expect. The wooden poles did not rust, humm...

They've just completed stripping the (perfectly OK) street surface along the same street and repaving it.

But it's Obamasphalt, so it's OK.

Just don't call it "black top". Then you'd be an anti Obama racist.