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Browse All Approved Stimulus Highway Projects

Road and bridge projects are expected to make up one of the biggest chunks of the jobs created in the stimulus package. Below, you’ll find a chart of more than 5,800 projects that have been approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Once given the green light, states can put the projects out to bid, contract them and begin construction work. So far, about 2,300 projects are under way.

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State County Project Number Project Description Improvement Type ARRA Funds Obligated
MAINE ANDROSCOGGIN 1588500 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning at High Street and extending northerly 0.51 of a mile to Court Street. Pavement Improvement $204,503
MAINE CUMBERLAND 1589100 Culvert Repair: Culvert replacement, located near Exit #22. Bridge Improvement $275,000
MAINE CUMBERLAND 1590100 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning at Warren Avenue and extending northerly 1.15 miles to Castine Avenue. Pavement Improvement $653,796
MAINE CUMBERLAND 1590300 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning 0.13 of a mile north of the Washington Avenue Southbound on-ramp and extending southerly 0.42 of a mile. Pavement Improvement $225,915
MAINE LINCOLN 1591800 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning 0.08 of a mile northerly of Eddy Road and extending northerly 1.02 miles to 0.05 of a mile northerly of Cochran Road. Pavement Improvement $512,452
MAINE SOMERSET 1593200 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning 3.74 miles southerly of the The Forks Plantation town line and extending northerly 3.77 miles. Pavement Improvement $787,207
MAINE FRANKLIN 1593300 Curb to Curb Mill & Fill 1 1/4 inch; 500 feet west of the bridge to Prescott Street; Route 2/4/27 intersection to Hill Street. Mill & Fill 1 1/4 inch; Hill Street to High Street; Prescott Street to 3 Pavement Improvement $422,428
MAINE SOMERSET 1593600 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning 0.26 of a mile northerly of Sandy Stream Road and extending northerly 13.65 miles to 0.01 of a mile southerly of the Canadian border. Pavement Improvement $2,471,123
MAINE SOMERSET 1594100 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning 0.16 of a mile southerly of the Parlin Pond Township town line and extending northerly 13.62 miles to 2.60 miles northerly of the Parlin Pond Township-Jackman town line Pavement Improvement $2,504,120
MAINE PENOBSCOT 1594300 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning 325' easterly of the I-95 northbound Exit 185 ramps and extending northerly 0.23 of a mile to the I-95 southbound Exit 185 ramps. Pavement Improvement $89,609
MAINE PENOBSCOT 1594800 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning at Western Avenue and extending northerly 4.02 miles to the Interstate 395 Exit 2 eastbound ramps. Pavement Improvement $1,262,169
MAINE PENOBSCOT 1595300 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning at the Mattamiscontis TWP town line and extending southerly 10.37 miles to 0.55 of a mile southerly of the Exit 217 on-ramp. Pavement Improvement $4,007,667
MAINE PENOBSCOT 1595400 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning at the T2 R8 NWP town line and extending southerly 7.06 miles to the Mattamiscontis TWP town line. Pavement Improvement $2,608,467
MAINE HANCOCK 1669600 Bridge Substructure Rehabilitation: Sedgwick Bridge (#3257) over Eggemoggin Reach, located on the Deer Isle-Sedgwick town line. Bridge Improvement $8,571,897
MAINE KNOX 1674500 Replacement of Spruce Head Bridge (5578) over Atlantic Ocean, located 0.65 of a mile southerly of Route 73. Bridge Replacement $2,906,091
MAINE PENOBSCOT 1677500 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning 0.55 of a mile southerly of the Exit 217 On-ramp and extending southerly 15.60 miles to the Alton/Old Town town line. Pavement Improvement $4,513,577
MAINE PENOBSCOT 1682200 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning at the T2 R9 NWP town line and extending southerly 8.22 miles to the T2 R8 NWP town line. Pavement Improvement $2,542,725
MAINE WASHINGTON 1698300 Highway Resurfacing: Beginning at the intersection of Route 1 and extending easterly approximately 6.7 miles. Pavement Improvement $3,397,597
MAINE CUMBERLAND 1700800 Capital retrofits and infrastructure improvements that enhance quality treatment of stormwater runoff in an urban impaired stream watershed as recommended by the Long Creek Watershed Planning Initiati Other $2,046,998
MAINE PISCATAQUIS A001000 Dover-Foxcroft, State Route 15, Highway Improvements Pavement Improvement $2,851,000
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A375 Signalization Safety/Traffic Management $5,287,442
MARYLAND CALVERT 000A369 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $4,612,059
MARYLAND CHARLES 000A370 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $4,623,563
MARYLAND ST MARYS 000A371 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $4,616,619
MARYLAND ANNE ARUNDEL 000A373 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $4,828,636
MARYLAND ANNE ARUNDEL 000A368 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $4,657,659
MARYLAND CECIL 000A379 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,299,728
MARYLAND KENT 000A380 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,314,963
MARYLAND QUEEN ANNES 000A381 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,309,460
MARYLAND TALBOT 000A382 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,288,732
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A385 Lighting Safety/Traffic Management $11,093,131
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A386 Sidewalks Pavement Improvement $2,377,547
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A387 Sidewalks Pavement Improvement $3,612,818
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A388 Sidewalks Pavement Improvement $2,302,300
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A389 Sidewalks Pavement Improvement $2,936,648
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A390 Sidewalks Pavement Improvement $1,794,107
MARYLAND DORCHESTER 000A395 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,205,364
MARYLAND SOMERSET 000A396 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,320,897
MARYLAND WICOMICO 000A397 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,291,662
MARYLAND WORCESTER 000A398 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,328,142
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A400 Guardrail Safety/Traffic Management $379,808
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A401 Guardrail Safety/Traffic Management $299,042
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A402 Guardrail Safety/Traffic Management $268,485
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A403 Guardrail Safety/Traffic Management $341,541
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A404 Guardrail Safety/Traffic Management $297,440
MARYLAND STATEWIDE 000A405 Guardrail Safety/Traffic Management $498,332
MARYLAND ALLEGANY 000A406 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,297,378
MARYLAND BALTIMORE 000A407 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $4,612,278
MARYLAND BALTIMORE 000A408 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $4,612,522
MARYLAND CARROLL 000A409 Resurfacing Pavement Improvement $2,277,771