Connecticut’s Department of Transportation has already drawn up a list of priority projects they hope will secure funding from President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure package that he proposed two weeks ago. The American Jobs Plan — the massive infrastructure package that could fund these projects — is just starting to move its way through Congress and Democrats hope it might be passed over the summer. Many of the priority projects announced DOT align with the objectives of the federal plan including incentivizing electric vehicles, repairing roads and bridges and improving public transportation, especially rail speeds. As the administration works to build support for the plan, the White House released report cards for every state’s infrastructure Monday, grading Connecticut’s at a C-. The vast majority of states received C or C- grades based on how the conditions of their roads and bridges, public transportation, resilient infrastructure, drinking water, housing, broadband, caregiving, child care, manufacturing, home energy, clean energy jobs and veterans health facilities.
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