If you build it

Kit Bond helps frightened Northlanders more easily escape all of the brown people in midtown KC.

Sen. Kit Bond on Sunday formally announced the appropriation of $50 million in federal funds to help replace the Paseo Bridge.

Bond earmarked the additional funds for the busy Missouri River crossing in a $286.5 billion transportation bill that is expected to pass the Senate within days.

I'm sure they'll probably name the bridge something new. Here are some suggestions:

• Kit Scaredy Catwalk
• Bridge over tepid waters
• Bada Bridge (In honor of all the Italians who live up North and import pointy shoes and big hair into the metro every day)
• 2nd place to Johnson County Connection
• Pre-approved Passage