The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a $426 million investment into critical infrastructure projects in 12 states to address some of the top congestion bottlenecks in the country, expand capacity for bypasses that serve thousands of freight trucks daily, and add multiple lanes to some of America’s busiest highways.

The projects include:

• $85 million for Florida DOT upgrade 20 miles of I-4 between State Road 434 and State Road 472 in Seminole and Volusia Counties;

• 25 million for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to convert a congested four-lane expressway into an eight-lane standard freeway with median barriers and auxiliary lanes;

• $11.3 million for the City of Savannah, Georgia, to support the construction of a new four-lane divided connector from I-516 to a realigned White Bluff Road;

• $53.5 million for the City of Wichita and the Kansas DOT to reconstruct and widen approximately 2.5 miles of roadway along K-96 from four to six lanes between Hydraulic Avenue and approximately 0.5 miles east of Oliver Street. The project addresses Kansas's top-ranked freight bottleneck expanding capacity for a critical bypass route projected to serve approximately 5,000 trucks daily; and

• $28 million for the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government in Louisiana to convert an existing signalized intersection into a grade-separated interchange—including, ramps, flyover bridges, and roadway improvements along approximately 2.2 miles of Kaliste Saloom Rd. and approximately 3.5 miles of US-90.