From the Lincoln Journal Star staff editorial (journalstar.com):
…The bond would have paid for more than half of the six-year, $135 million deficit in street project money identified by the mayor’s Streets Roads and Trails Committee. The bond would have helped fund 33 major street projects in the city, with work to have begun on all by 2007…The unfortunate thing is that Lincoln taxpayers will still pay for these improvements in the long run because the work has to be done…