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PennDOT says 2024 saw record number of road, bridge
Stacy Wescoe//December 11, 2024//
Listen to this articleThe Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said it repaired a record number of road and bridge improvements in 2024.
It said that it repaired more poorly conditioned bridges this year than any other state and improved more miles of roadway than in the past decade.
According to a press release, from January through November, 5,485 roadway miles were improved by PennDOT, including 1,955 miles of paving. In the same timeframe, work advanced on 422 state and locally owned bridges.
Additionally, 447 construction contracts for highway, bridge, and other improvement projects were completed statewide through PennDOT’s private-sector partners so far this year.
In his first two years, PennDOT said Governor Josh Shapiro has delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure funding for our roads and bridges, resulting in 12,496 miles of roadway improved, including 4,477 miles of paving: nearly 500 more miles of roadway improved and nearly 600 more miles paved than in the previous two years.
During the same timeframe, work advanced on 1,106 state and local bridges, compared to 998 during the previous two years, it said.
Both Democrats and Republicans came together to invest $330.5 million in additional state funding in state roads and bridges on a bipartisan basis.
