The Joe Biden administration will launch a three-week campaign to highlight the benefits of infrastructure investments in local communities by awarding nearly $300 million to help repair or replace more than a dozen bridges across the country.
Events in four states on Thursday will mark the end of the initial phase of a White House push heading into President Joe Biden’s highly anticipated 2024 re-election run to remind voters of his accomplishments.
During the “Investing in America” tour, Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other officials held more than 50 events in 25 states on projects that benefit from landmark infrastructure, climate and high-tech manufacturing laws passed during the first two years of the Democratic president. in the office.
The White House announced Thursday that the $300 million will be invested in nine bridges across the country, which carry a total of 230,000 cars per day.
WHERE THE MILLIONAIRE INVESTMENT WILL BE INVESTED
- San Diego, California: $24 million will be spent to make improvements to the Palm Avenue’ Overcrossing Bridge.
- Bay City, Michigan: $73 million will be invested to replace the Lafayette Bridge, which is more than 85 years old and is used by more than 16,000 vehicles per day.
- Albany, New York: $21 million will be invested in repairing the Castleton-on-Hudson Bridge, which connects I-87 in Albany County that runs through the state of New York and goes to Massachusetts.
- Northwest Oklahoma: $11.5 million will be invested to replace seven bridges used by 3,000 vehicles per day.
- northwestern south carolina: $51.2 million will be invested to replace six bridges up to 100 years old and through which 13,000 cars pass per day.
- San Antonio, TX: $14 million will be invested to replace the San Antonio River Bridge on US-59.
- Virginia y Washington DC: $72 million will be invested in rehabilitating the bridge Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge, which carries 88,000 vehicles per day.
- Madison, Wisconsin: $15.1 million will be invested in replacing six bridges through which $45,000 vehicles pass daily.
- Portland, Oregon: $13.9 million to be invested in replacing the Burgard Viaduct, which is nearly 100 years old