A preliminary list of the Trump administrations priority infrastructure projects, obtained by the Kansas City Star and The News Tribune, outlines 50 projects valued at $137.5 billion.
The document, available here, indicates these projects would be funded equally by private and public investment and would directly create 193, 350 job years and indirectly create 241,700 job years.
The projects include, in order as listed in the document:
Gateway Program
“Reconstruction of critical, high-risk Northeast Corridor rail infrastructure between Newark and New York City.”
Cost: $12 billion
Jobs: 15,000 direct, 19,000 indirect
Brent Spence Bridge
“The interstate highway bridge was build in 1963 and is carrying twice its original capacity. There are no shoulders on the bridge and the lanes are too narrow for today’s traffic. It is the major cause of delays on I-75 and the site of numerous fatal auto accidents. The Federal Highway Administration ranks it as the 15th worst bridge in the country.
Cost: $2.5 billion
Jobs: 2,200 direct
National Research Lab for Infrastructure
“Conceived along the lines of the old Bell Labs, this R&D center would develop and commercialize infrastructure technology of the future. The lab would be sited in Columbus, Ohio and work closely with Ohio State University National Transportation Research Center and Battelle labs.
Cost: $2 billion
Jobs: 2,300 direct
Locks and Dams 52 and 53 on the Ohio River
Cost: $3 billion
Jobs: 1,500 direct
I-95 Critical Highway Repairs, North Carolina
Cost: $1.5 billion
Jobs: 5,400 direct
15 Bridges on I-95, Philadelphia
Cost: $8 billion
Jobs: 15,800
Mississippi River Shipping Channel Dredging, South Louisiana
Cost: $1 billion
Jobs: 200 direct
NextGen Air Traffic Control System
Cost: $10 billion
Jobs: 2,300 direct
Plains and Easter Electric Transmission Lines (Oklahoma to Tennessee)
Cost: $2.5 billion
Jobs: 3,300 direct
Project Clean Lake, Cleveland, Ohio
Cost: $3 billion
Jobs: 2,150 direct
South Carolina Dams Accelerated Repairs
Cost: $850 million
Jobs: 2,200 direct
Hydroelectric Plants operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Cost: $4 billion
Jobs: 550 direct
Texas Central Railway
Cost: $12 billion
Jobs: 40,000 direct
Cotton Belt Line Rail Project (Dallas/Fort Worth)
Cost: $1.1 billion
Jobs: 2,000 direct
Cadiz Water Conveyance Project (Mojave Desert)
Cost: $250 million
Jobs: 5,900 direct
TransWest Express Transmission (Wyoming, California, Nevada, Arizona)
Cost: $3 billion
Jobs: 3,000 direct, 4,000 indirect
Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy/Wyoming
Cost: $5 billion
Jobs: 1,000 direct
Second Avenue Subway – Phases 2 & 3 (New York City)
Cost: $14.2 billion
Jobs: 16,000
Savannah Harbor Expansion Acceleration
Cost: $706 million
Jobs: 2,400 direct, 11,000 indirect
Atlantic Coast Pipeline (West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina)
Cost: $4.5-$5 billion
Jobs: 10,000 direct job years
Champlain Hudson Power Express (New York metro)
Cost: $2.2 billion
Jobs: 1,000 direct job years
DC Union Station Expansion & Rehab
Cost: $8.7 billion
Jobs: 16,000 direct job years
Maryland Purple Line
Cost: $5.6 billion
Jobs: 5,000 direct job years
M-1 Rail, Detroit
Cost: $528 million
Jobs: 500 direct job years
Gordie How International Bridge
Cost: $4.5 billion
Jobs: 13,000 direct job years, 10,000 indirect jobs
Kansas City Airport
Cost: $972 million
Jobs: 1,000 direct jobs
The Peace Bridge (Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, and Buffalo, New York)
Cost: $700 million
Jobs: 700 direct
MBTA Green Line Extension, Boston
Cost: $3 billion
Jobs: 3,000 direct
Augustin Plains Ranch (New Mexico underground water storage)
Cost: $600 million
Jobs: 600 direct
I-93 Rebuild, New Hampshire
Cost: $800 million
Jobs: 800 direct
Lake Pontchartrain Bridge/Causeway
Cost: $125 million
Jobs: 200 direct
Port Newark Container Terminal Improvements
Cost: $500 million
Jobs: 500 direct
Howard Street Tunnel (Baltimore)
Cost: $425 million
Jobs: 500 direct, 3,200 indirect
Red and Purple Line Modernization, Chicago
Cost: $2.1 billion
Jobs: 2,100 direct
I-395/I-95 Reconstruction
Cost: $800 million
Jobs: 800 direct
Chicago Union Station Redevelopment
Cost: $1 billion
Jobs: 1,000 direct
Upper Mississippi Locks 20-25
Cost: $1.8 billion
Jobs: 1,800 direct
Illinois River Locks – Lagrange and Peoria
Cost: $640 million
Jobs: 650 direct
Colorado I-70 Mountain Corridor
Cost: $1 billion
Jobs: 1,000 direct
Colorado I-25 Improvements
Cost: $1 billion
Jobs: 1,000 direct
IHNC Lock Replacement, New Orleans
Cost: $893 million
Jobs: 900 direct
Chickamauga Lock
Cost: $383 million
Jobs: 400 direct
Soo Locks Reconstruction
Cost: $580 million
Jobs: 600 direct
Huntington Beach Desalination Plant
Cost: $350 million
Jobs: 400 direct
Upper Ohio Navigation Improvements
Cost: $1.7 billion
Jobs: 1,700 direct
Monongahela River Locks-and-Dams
Cost: $900 million
Jobs: 900 direct
Seattle Airport Expansion
Cost: $2 billion
Jobs: 2,000 direct
Arlington Memorial Bridge
Cost: $250 million
Jobs: 300 direct
Energy Storage and Grid Modernization
Cost: “variable”
Jobs: “variable”
St. Louis Airport
Cost: $1.8 billion
Jobs: 1,800 direct
