WASHINGTON -- Nearly $10 billion in stimulus aid to repair the nation's tattered highways has largely bypassed dozens of metropolitan areas where roads are in the worst shape, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

Half of the nation?s worst roads are in counties that will only get about 20% of the stimulus money allocated by state and federal officials for street repairs. Although the worst roads are in just a handful of counties, they account for 11,000 miles of pavement so rough the government has branded them as unacceptable.

The problem is a byproduct of a stimulus package designed to spend as fast as possible to revive the economy. Many roads are in such bad shape that repairs would take too long and cost too much to qualify for funds, says John Barton, head of engineering for Texas' Department of Transportation...

•Dallas trails only Los Angeles in miles of bad roads, yet it has received less than 1% of the $530 million that Texas approved for road repairs. "It's a significant issue," Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert says.

Nearly 11,000 miles of road repairs and yet they still complain?  These are probably the same people that complained about President Obama and the Democratic Party passing the stimulus bill to begin with.  Don't ya just love'm?

As for Dallas Texas complaints, isn't this the state that wants to secede from the Nation?  Didn't they also, in the beginning, refuse to accept any stimulus funds?  Just imagine what would happened if they had turned away, they wouldn't have gotten even the road work they've already received (1071 miles of road repairs).