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The Patrick administration is pushing through a plan to spend $9 million in federal stimulus money to build a walking bridge connecting parking lots on either side of Route 1 near Gillette Stadium. The lots belong to Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, who is tied for number 468 on Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s billionaires. State officials decided to bypass a host of projects across the state - including road rebuilding projects in Canton, Danvers, Braintree, and Bellingham - to build the footbridge. The bridge was included on a slate of projects, prepared by the administration, that was approved late last month by a regional planning board that determines how to spend federal transportation money in the Boston area. Most transportation projects reviewed for federal funding are evaluated by two sets of professional planners before such votes, but the bridge and some other stimulus projects on the recently approved slate received no such review. “Is this the best use of very, very limited stimulus money for transportation, a pedestrian bridge that basically goes between two parking lots?’’ said Marc Draisen, director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, one of the planning agencies that would normally review such a project. “At this point, I don’t feel we have enough information about this project.’’