CAWP Legislative News 4-10

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Reviews First Year of Recovery Act

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has held 14 hearings to date on the progress of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the latest hearing Tuesday dealt with the first full year of the program.

According to the Committee, the ARRA has resulted in the following:

* 10,348 - number of highway, transit and wastewater projects that have broken ground
* 300,000 - number of direct jobs created or sustained
* 938,000 - number of indirect jobs created or sustained
* 5,700 - number of additional project currently being prepared for bid
* 24,000 - number of miles of roads improved
* 1,100 - number of bridges rehabilitated
* 77 percent or $26.4 billion of the stimulus' formula-based road and transit spending has been put out to bid by state officials