Nearly 1,700 individual infrastructure projects, with a cumulative funding value of around $13 billion, have been undertaken as part of the massive Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
According to a new tracking service offered by the National League of Cities roughly 41% of all of the funded projects have centered on road and bridge work, with a significantly smaller 14% going for airport facility work.
Another 13% of the funded projects have centered on clean energy endeavors, while 7% have gone to public transportation work.
In a statement, Clarence Anthony, chief executive officer of the NLC, said that even though his organization has for years lobbied for greater federal infrastructure project funding, it has only been recently that “we’re now seeing that work become reality.”
The NLC tracking service also shows that just under 8% of federal funding has gone for environmental remediation projects, with a smaller 7.1% targeting safety projects.
The group’s tracking also shows the regional disbursement of funded projects, with the Midwest overwhelmingly, at 17%, receiving the most support for road and bridge projects. The amount of funding going to projects in the Northeast, South, and West has varied between 7% and 9%.
Arizona has received funding for more than two dozen individual projects, with the largest being the $25 million for road and bridge work undertaken by the City of Phoenix. Colorado has received funding for just over 40 projects, with $60 million going to a Denver International Airport terminal project.
Two dozen projects to date have received funding in New Mexico. Largest for the Land of Enchantment: $25 million for the building of the Uptown Connect transit plaza in Albuquerque.
By Garry Boulard
