After delaying the vote for a week, the Texas Transportation Commission today approved 29 projects throughout the state to receive $1.2 billion in American Recovery and Revitalization Act (ARRA) funding. The projects attacted even more in local funding from MPOs and RMAs, bringing the total investment to more than $2.6 billion in new transportation construction projects.

Click here for a list of projects that were approved, including the $500 million approved last week for maintenance projects.

Read below of TSRT's statement on the Commission vote.
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The following statement can be attributed to Bill Noble, executive director of Texans for Safe Reliable Transportation:

“The Commission’s adoption of the expanded list of staff-recommended projects for economic stimulus funding demonstrates good stewardship of our state’s road system, creative leveraging of taxpayer money and fiscal responsibility.

“This money and the additional funds it is leveraging for much-needed road projects will put thousands of people to work here in Texas on shovel ready projects and spur economic growth across the state.

“The process to identify shovel ready projects demonstrates TxDOT’s desire for openness, accountability and strong local cooperation, and produced a regionally diverse group of projects.

“We urge our lawmakers to be mindful that federal funding is not the answer for longer term funding solutions Texas desperately needs and ask lawmakers and TxDOT to work together this Session to find comprehensive solutions for equitable, long term transportation funding.”

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