infrastructure

This week is federal 'Infrastructure Week' and states are getting word about projects and awards that are being funded through the bipartisan infrastructure law that was signed in 2021.

According to a new report from the non-profit transportation group TRIP, 20% of Maine's rural roads are in poor condition, and 15% of the state's bridges are poor or structurally deficient. Both rank in the bottom 10 in the country.

The Mills administration is distributing nearly $20 million to 13 communities for infrastructure improvements related to climate change.

The project will give passengers more room near the gates and create more space for travelers entering and leaving the security checkpoint.

Maine is just now beginning to see impacts from the infrastructure bill passed by Congress last year. The measure promises to significantly boost federal spending on roads, bridges, rail, water projects, and broadband internet, among other things.

Maine is expected to receive $1.5 billion for road, highway and bridge projects from the bipartisan measure. Public transportation programs in Maine are slated to receive an additional $234 million over five years while airports will receive $74 million.

Democrats propose to fund the measure - estimated to cost $3.5 trillion over ten years - by taxing corporations and the wealthiest Americans and hope to reach a deal by the end of the month.

The deal comes after centrist Democrats, including Maine Congressman Jared Golden, refused to vote on the two proposals if they were packaged together.

Maine's U.S. Senators are celebrating the Senate's final passage Tuesday of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, a spending proposal that would direct roughly $1.9 billion to the state for roads, bridges and high-speed internet.

Maine's U.S. Senators are promoting a historic investment in high-speed internet in the nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill currently making its way through Congress.