Anchorage Daily News
By Jeff Stein, Michael Laris, The Washington Post
August 11, 2021
WASHINGTON - It has taken years for Congress to finally get behind its long-imagined goal of legislation to upgrade the nation’s ailing infrastructure. And even if signed into law this fall, it could take many more still for Americans to feel its full impact.
While President Joe Biden’s stimulus plan delivered tangible economic benefits to most of the country within weeks, key parts of the infrastructure plan the Senate passed on Tuesday morning may take the better part of a decade to come to fruition. The proposal must still clear the House of Representatives.
Substantial pots of funding are likely to be quickly disbursed, particularly for updating existing projects, such as repaving the nation’s roads. But major public works projects often have to go through a lengthy process - from federal agency to locality to private builder - and may not result in new usable infrastructure for years.
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