303 Highway Improvement Projects Underway or Completed in New York Thanks to Stimulus Law

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American Road & Transportation Builders Association

Mar 08, 2010, 04:53 ET

WASHINGTON, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There are currently 303 American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA)-financed highway construction projects underway or completed in New York involving $636.6 million in funds, according to data released today by the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The projects underway or completed have supported or are supporting 17,768 jobs in New York that would otherwise not exist, says ARTBA Vice President of Economics & Research Dr. Bill Buechner.

ARRA, signed into law on February 17, 2009, provided $48 billion for transportation improvements over two years, including $27.5 billion for highway, bridge and related construction projects nationwide. The law is having significant impacts on the transportation construction industry in all 50 states.

ARRA provided $1.13 billion to New York for highway, bridge and related improvements. This one-time bonus added more than 77 percent to New York's regular federal highway funds under the current federal surface transportation law -- Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) -- bringing the state's total federal highway funding in 2009 to a record $2.58 billion.

According to Buechner, a Harvard-trained economist, another 140 projects have been identified and are slated to be under construction shortly.

The following shows the number of ARRA-financed highway projects and amount obligated in each

New York congressional district.


Congressional District	Number of projects	Amount Obligated
1-3	7	$29,296,204
12-16	6	$51,627,547
17-18	10	$61,367,864
19	18	$22,697,488
20	26	$33,225,855
21	21	$60,417,759
22	39	$74,029,768
23	24	$26,718,565
24	51	$57,019,866
25	14	$31,285,339
26	37	$43,551,950
27	25	$26,391,649
28	20	$33,370,489
29	44	$56,308,172
Multidistrict, NYC Metro	25	$120,675,505
Multidistrict, rest of state	76	$216,484,703

A full report can be obtained by contacting ARTBA's Jeff Solsby at [email protected] or 202-289-4434.

For 108 years, ARTBA has represented the U.S. transportation design and construction industry before Congress, the White House, federal agencies, news media and general public.

SOURCE American Road & Transportation Builders Association