'Climate Time Bomb': Infrastructure Law Funds Highways Over Public Transit

01 Mar 2024 | Abstracted from Common Dreams

"Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), gave state transportation officials discretion over how to spend money distributed by the $1.2 trillion package... Transportation for America warned in a new analysis of 57,000 projects that the law has revealed itself to be a "climate time bomb"...more than half of the funds - about $70 billion - so far spent on resurfacing and expanding highways."

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