The infrastructure plan U.S. President Joe Biden rolled out in Pittsburgh on Wednesday includes US$2.3 trillion in investments aimed at everything from fixing 10,000 bridges to tearing lead pipes out of millions of homes in the United States, Reuters reports.

US$650 BILLION FOR ROADS, RAIL, TRANSPORT

The plan would modernize 20,000 miles of highways and roads, the top 10 “economically significant bridges” and 10,000 other bridges.

It includes US$20 billion for road safety programs to reduce fatalities for cyclists and pedestrians, and $20 billion to reconnect neighborhoods divided by highway projects.

It would double federal funding for public transit with a US$85 billion investment and invest US$80 billion in Amtrak.

The plan includes US$25 billion for airports, US$17 billion for inland waterways, coastal ports and ferries, and investments in cleaning port air pollution.

There’s another US$25 billion for “ambitious” transportation projects “too large for current funding programs.”

And, in a boost to electronic vehicle makers, a US$174 billion investment to “win the EV market” by spurring domestic supply chains and giving consumers rebates to buy them.

This November 26, 2020 file photo shows the newly refurbished Rachel Carson Bridge over the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh. President Joe Biden wants US$2 trillion to reengineer America’s infrastructure and expects the nation’s corporations to pay for it.

US to modernize highways, roads, airports, and rail