Transportation infrastructure work finally arrives as part of the jobs bill. Well, if the jobs bill happens. It’s just $1.5 billion, but it’s a start. From the DOT website:

The winning TIGER projects highlighted the diversity of transportation needs throughout the U.S. from grand Moynihan Station in New York City, which will carry millions of train and subway riders each year to “the most beautiful drive in America” – Wyoming’s Beartooth Highway – the gateway to Yellowstone National Park. They ranged from major billion dollar freight rail corridors in the Midwest and South, to bridge repairs in Oklahoma and South Carolina to port projects in Maine and Hawaii.

TIGER funds will also help construct the Union Passenger Terminal/Loyola Streetcar Loop in New Orleans, make safety improvements to a key highway in New Mexico Navajo country and spur economic growth in Appalachia through the Appalachian Regional Short Line Rail Project and the Gateway Project.

Let China, Japan, and Europe have bullet trains! We’ll lick them by having the best trolleys in the world! We’ll show ‘em that nobody beats us on 19th century technology!

Sigh.

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