Taxpayers for Common Sense has helpfully put up a list of “earmarks” — those pesky little line items that legislators tack on to appropriations bills — attached to HR 3550, the House TEA3 transportation reauthorization. Among the goodies for Chicago are $18 million for Lake Shore Drive and the lakefront parks, nearly $9 million for road and transit improvements around CHA redevelopment sites, over $50 million for Bill Lipinski’s glorious plans for Ogden Avenue, $4 million for roads around the new Ford plant in Hegewisch, and $3 million for unspecified “bike/pedestrian paths.” Someone managed to swing $1 million to study the Oak Park freeway cap.