(WSIL) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is allocatingÌý$2.33 billionÌýto Illinois in Fiscal Year 2025 funding.
The agency made the announcement on October 1st. This money comes from the Biden-Harris Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and will support 12 infrastructure programs in Illinois.Ìý
- National Highway Performance Program -Ìý$1,060,692,724
- Surface Transportation Block Grant -Ìý$516,012,677Ìý
- Highway Safety Improvement Program -Ìý$109,009,408Ìý
- Railway-Highway Crossings Program -Ìý$11,270,541Ìý
- Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality Program -Ìý$127,299,951Ìý
- Metropolitan Planning -Ìý$23,887,494Ìý
- National Highway Freight Program -Ìý$52,324,691
- Carbon Reduction Program -Ìý$46,011,130Ìý
- PROTECT Formula Program -Ìý$52,317,952Ìý
- National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program -Ìý$31,655,872
- Bridge Formula Program -Ìý$297,268,565Ìý
The Biden Administration says funding from the Bipartisan Infrastrucute Law is creating jobs. The administration also claims its helping states chip away at infrastructure needs that have gone unaddressed due to a lack of funding.
As part of $62 billion allocated nationwide, the funding delivered to Illinois will provide transportation leaders the flexibility to continue rebuilding roads and bridges and making their transportation system more efficient reflecting the state’s particular needs.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg released a statement on the matter.Ìý
“With over 60,000 projects funded through our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we continue to deliver on the decades-long promise to invest in American infrastructure,â€� Buttigieg said.Ìý“The $62 billion the Biden-Harris Administration announced today will help communities in Illinois continue to rebuild roads and bridges, implement new and innovative transportation solutions, strengthen our supply chains, and create good-paying jobs nationwide.â€ÌýÌ�
Acting Federal Highway Administrator Kristin White also released a statement on the funding.Ìý
“The Biden Harris Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was signed into law less than three years ago, and yet we are in the midst of an infrastructure decade celebrating historic funding investments to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico,â€� saidÌýWhite. “These investments keep Americans safer, promote efficiency, advance our climate goals, and spur technological innovation. This funding also creates good-paying, high-skilled jobs and helps to reconnect communities, improving the lives of every American.â€�
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law marked the single largest dedicated investment in American transportation infrastructure since the construction of the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s and 1960s.
The fourth year of funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $62 billion in funding for Fiscal Year 2025 � an increase of $18.8 billion in formula programs compared to Fiscal Year 2021, the last fiscal year before the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was implemented.
This funding is distributed annually by FHWA based on Congressionally mandated formulas.Ìý
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