17% of the US's Infrastructure & Jobs Act goes to transit. 67% goes to conventional highway programs
17% of the US's Infrastructure & Jobs Act goes to transit. 67% goes to conventional highway programs
Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.
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A lot of those "highway programs" include things like removing barriers to aquatic organism passage, reducing congestion and emissions from the movement of cargo, and other things that don't suck. It's still weighed too heavily in favor of cars and highways for sure, but there's more getting funded by the IIJA & IRA than just, like, freeways.
Reducing congestion is mostly attempted by building and expanding highways, which is proven not to reduce congestion. The vast majority of the budget is spent on building and expending highways.
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or two fifths of fuck all