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Guide to the 2021 infrastructure law

The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure law now governs all federal transportation policy and funding through 2026. What do you need to know about it? Visit our hub for the new law.

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We make complex transportation issues more understandable through easy-to-understand reports, graphics, and interactive features, and other resources.

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Recent Posts

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  • Close-up of Capitol building
    Tell your senator, now is the time for Complete Streets!

    Two new bills introduced to Congress by Senators Ed Markey and John Fetterman make Complete Streets a minimum design mandate, redefining our road design...

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  • Overhead photo of a three-lane street in Chattanooga, TN, where a quick build demonstration project has resulted in additional crosswalks, activated sidewalks, and bollard-protected bike lanes
    Supercharge your community’s quick-build safety demonstration projects with Safe Streets for All

    Because of a mistake by Congress in the 2021 infrastructure law, 40 percent of the new $1 billion-per-year Safe Streets for All program must be directed...

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  • A group of people in formal business attire sits in a conference room listening to a member of the roundtable speak
    Takeaways from the Smart Growth Electrification Roundtable

    On January 23, 2024, Transportation for America, in partnership with the Bicameral Electrification Caucus, organized a roundtable discussion on Capitol...

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  • Joe Biden sits ponderously at his desk, pen in hand.
    Three years in, what can Biden still accomplish for transportation?

    In November 2020, we sent the incoming Biden administration a memo outlining executive actions and long-term legislation we urged the new president to...

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  • A long highway surrounded by grasslands and hills, with a narrow black trail curving to the left
    Better build another highway: The Legacy Parkway story

    Gently curving through wetlands southeast of the Great Salt Lake, Utah’s Legacy Parkway has been characterized as an example of a state DOT making a...

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  • A diverse set of passengers (women and men, young and old) rides a bus down a sunny street
    Why we need the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act

    Representative Hank Johnson (GA-04) reintroduced the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act, which would establish a federal funding program for...

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Featured T4America Resources

Get started with our landmark reports on a range of transportation issues


  • Electric vehicles & smart growth
    Electric vehicles & smart growth

    This page includes all of our resources on how to reduce emissions in an equitable way—and that path includes the EV transition.

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  • Gas tax alternatives: A policy evaluation framework
    Gas tax alternatives: A policy evaluation framework

    Much of the discussion about alternatives to the gas tax in recent years has focused on the idea of “fairness”—ensuring that…

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  • Divided by Design
    Divided by Design

    Examining how today’s transportation measures, models, and practices were shaped by the racist history of the 1950s and 60s, and…

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  • Community Connectors portal
    Community Connectors portal

    Transportation for America’s Community Connectors portal provides tools and information for advocates to decode the complex and confusing…

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  • Guide to the 2021 infrastructure law
    Guide to the 2021 infrastructure law

    The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure law now governs all federal transportation policy and funding through 2026. What do you…

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  • Driving Down Emissions
    Driving Down Emissions

    We'll never reduce our emissions without reducing how much we drive.

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