California can expect to receive $849M in federal funds to repair aging bridges

by Olivia Wynkoop, Bay City News January 18, 2022January 14, 2022

The eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is pictured. The Bay Area's eight bridges are among more than 1,500 statewide that will receive a share of federal infrastructure money for maintenance and improvements. (Photo by Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News)

California will soon receive $849.4 million in federal funds to repair and improve 1,536 bridges across the state thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, recently announced.

Over the next five years, California will receive $4.2 billion of the $110 billion the Biden Administration plans to administer to road and bridge repair projects nationwide. The funds are the single-largest investment in reconstructing U.S. roads since the creation of the Interstate Highway System in 1956, according to the legislation’s fact sheet.

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