American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Overview On February 17, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This legislation provides over $1 billion for New Jersey's transportation infrastructure. It will stimulate New Jersey's economy by creating or supporting thousands of transportation-related jobs and making long-term improvements to our roads, bridges and transit system. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is expected to provide approximately $652 million for New Jersey’s state (pdf 88k) and local highway and bridge infrastructure projects and approximately $425 million for New Jersey’s transit projects (pdf 57k). The files above are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free from the state Adobe Access page, to view the files. ARRA construction projects awarded to date: 2010 | 2009