Miles SmithThe U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is allocating $62 billion for road, bridge and tunnel projects in Fiscal Year 2025.
The funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) will be split between 12 formula programs and represents the largest investment in American transportation infrastructure since the construction of the interstate highway system in the 1950s and 1960s, the FHWA says.
The funding is being allocated across all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Texas tops the list when it comes to funding for highway programs, with an allotment of over $5.4 billon, followed by California with $5.1 billion. Florida, New York and Pennsylvania are all receiving over $2 billion in highway program appointments for FY 2025.
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The allocation for FY 2025 is an increase of $18.8 billion in formula programs compared to FY 2021, the last fiscal year before the BIL was implemented.
“These investments keep Americans safer, promote efficiency, advance our climate goals, and spur technological innovation,” says Acting Federal Highway Administrator Kristin White. “This funding also creates good-paying, high-skilled jobs and helps to reconnect communities, improving the lives of every American.”
Congress authorizes the federal-aid highway program funds periodically through multi-year laws to assist states in construction, and improvement of highways and bridges on eligible federal-aid routes.
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