"It absolutely is an indictment of how state DOTs spend money," said Corrigan Salerno, a policy manager at Transportation for America. "In first two years of the IIJA, when the spigot of money was turned on, it was focused on shovel-ready projects - huge highway projects states were waiting on for years."
Even in California, their priorities are pretty much aligned with the rest of the country: building more roads to attempt to accommodate more cars, to reduce congestion, and then, of course, failing decade after decade," Salerno added.
In one of the biggest tranches of funding analyzed for this report - roughly $54 billion in National Highway Performance Program funds - 42 percent of the funding helped expand road capacity, while just 36 percent went to highway resurfacing projects.
Even the $35.6-billion Surface Transportation Block Grant program - which is considered the most flexible formula funding because it allows states to fund almost any type of transportation project - put too much emphasis on cars, with 23 percent of funding allocated to transit.
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