Harrisburg, PA – At events across the state, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) officials have been highlighting improvements made to the commonwealth’s vast network of roads and bridges during the 2024 construction season.
Statewide from January through November, 5,485 roadway miles were improved, 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, Governor 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.
The Shapiro Administration repaired more poor-condition bridges than any other state in the nation last year and improved more miles of roadway than any time in the past decade. He has brought Democrats and Republicans together to invest $330.5 million in additional state funding in our roads and bridges on a bipartisan basis.