Federal stimulus includes $10B for roads and bridges, including $410M for PennDOT

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Pennsylvania will benefit from a new target of funding in the federal stimulus package approved Monday: state departments of transportation, where financially beleaguered PennDOT is expected to receive $410.1 million.

That’s according to an analysis of the $10 billion allocation in the stimulus package by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials using the federal Department of Transportation’s formula. The association lobbied hard for Congress to include transportation departments, which have lost hundreds of millions of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic because their funding is largely related to traffic volume.

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