New I-15 billboard touts infrastructure bill in Las Vegas

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Motorists traveling connected engaged Interstate 15 successful the Resort Corridor this vacation play are being reminded that the bipartisan infrastructure bill precocious passed into instrumentality is acceptable to marque their commutes smoother successful the future.

A billboard paid for by the Democratic National Committee and featuring President Joe Biden signing the measure into instrumentality was scheduled to spell unrecorded Tuesday greeting connected I-15 southbound adjacent Harmon Avenue.

The billboard is portion of a nationwide run dispersed among 5 large question hubs successful the U.S., with akin versions besides featured successful Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia and Chicago.

“As Americans question to beryllium with their loved ones this vacation season, we privation to marque definite folks successful Nevada cognize that amended roads, highways, bridges, airports are connected the way, acknowledgment to President Biden’s and Nevada Democrats’ leadership,” said DNC Chair Jaime Harrison. “The President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law volition amended highways, repair bridges, amended nationalist transportation, and modernize our airports, easing accent and making it easier for Nevadans to get astir and enactment connected.”

Nevada is acceptable to person $2.5 billion to amended highways, $220 cardinal for span replacement and repairs implicit 5 years and astir $460 cardinal implicit 5 years to amended nationalist proscription options crossed the state, and implicit $58 cardinal for fiscal twelvemonth 2022 to update airdrome infrastructure.

Of that Nevada volition person $481 cardinal to spell toward improving highways and bridges and bolstering efforts to little postulation deaths and superior injuries successful the state.

“This wealth volition besides assistance marque it imaginable for america to marque captious investments successful I-15, I-80, and the caller I-11,” said Sen Jacky Rosen successful a statement.

Another allocation announced past week was $58.3 cardinal successful Federal Aviation Administration backing to spell to airports successful Nevada. That includes $44 cardinal to Harry Reid International Airport and $1.9 cardinal to the Boulder City Municipal Airport.

“Nevada’s airports are the gateways to our authorities for visitors from crossed the state and astir the world,” Rosen said successful a statement. “The $58 cardinal headed to Nevada is simply a game-changer that volition present long-overdue resources to expand, upgrade, and modernize our airports each implicit the state.”

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