You may indeed be right (I hope your right because Ohio really needs it) and I know it has been discussed by the powers that be, but I believe Ohio University will spend a billion dollars on infrastructure construction when I see it. Cleveland's building in interstate highway bridge in the downtown area and now ODOT's telling Cleveland there might not be enough money to finish that project. So I'm not very confident Ohio U's going to be getting a billion dollars any time soon from the State of Ohio for infrastructure purposes.
There's something wrong with this statement. A city -- not even Cleveland -- builds interstate highways or their bridges. These are built by the state government with a 90-10 federal-state match. The state hires the contractors that do the work. I wonder if the bridge you are talking about is the one that Cleveland wanted stimulus money for but that Gov. Strickland sent to Athens County for the Nelsonville Bypass. Strickland earmarked some stimulus funds of a Cleveland project, but some in Cleveland were upset that they didn't get both of their local pork projects funded. The one not funded, as I recall, was a bridge. Could this be the bridge you are referring to? All I can say, is "thank you, Governor Strickland!