The real infrastructure projects will take 12 to 15 years to get done -- if they ever clear the activist legal assaults ("Biden administration unveils transportation projects set to boost vulnerable Dem states," Web, Aug. 13). The major projects underway today include many of the "shovel-ready" programs approved in former President Barack Obama's stimulus in 2009. The Democrats know it, so they are pushing bike paths to the front of the line because the activists want them.