Alabama Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth is a longtime critic of the Alabama Department of Transportation, and in particular, a project to create a continuous four-lane route between Mobile and Tuscaloosa.

That project, known as the West Alabama Corridor, is a much different direction than Ainsworth’s trademark idea to widen Interstate 65 from the Tennessee border all the way down to the beach.

Earlier this month, Alabama completed a roughly $730 million bond sale to finance construction of that West Alabama Corridor. Ainsworth argues the state is getting a terrible deal from it.

“Spending $750 million state dollars on the West Alabama Corridor with ZERO federal match is the biggest abuse of taxpayer funding in Alabama history,” Ainsworth posted on Thursday.

“ALDOT Director John Cooper shou

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