As the New York Times reported Thursday morning, many of the nation’s biggest cities are not getting their fair share of highway spending from the federal stimulus bill. Overall, according to a study that IHS Global Insight did for the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the top 85 metro areas account for 63 percent of the nation’s population and 73 percent of gross domestic product, but so far they’re only getting 48 percent of the transportation funds.

Despite Mayor Francis Slay’s complaints, however, St. Louis doesn’t appear to be one of the places getting the short end of the stick. The Times graphic shows that the St. Louis metro area produces 0.90 percent of the nation’s GDP and is getting 0.91 percent of the highway money. The IHS Global Insight study breaks down spending by state, and it shows that metro St. Louis got 58 percent of Missouri’s allocation. The metro area produces 45 percent of Missouri’s gross state product. On a per capita basis, metro St. Louis got $83.80 per resident, compared with $91.61 in Kansas City and $6.15 in the rest of the state.

IHS Global Insight also plots the stimulus money against traffic congestion costs, and St. Louis doesn’t fare badly by that measure either. In that chart, we bear about 0.9 percent of the nation’s congestion costs but we’re getting 1.3 percent of the dollars that are supposed to make things better.