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      About 54 percent ($643 billion) of the law’s $1.2 trillion total goes toward surface transportation, into a massive five-year authorization (through 2026) of federal transportation law that’s nearly twice the size of the FAST Act that it replaces. The rest goes toward other non-surface transportation infrastructure needs. Two-thirds ($432 billion) of that $643 billion is flowing to conventional highway programs. And when compared to the previous five-year law, the new infrastructure bill increases highway program funding by 90 percent, transit funding by 79 percent, and rail infrastructure funding by 750 percent.

      As i read it, that says 2/3 of 54% is surface transportation, including rail and bridges etc. so roughly $425B out of 1.2T. So, not mostly highways.

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        A plurality for highways. By a large margin the largest recipient of funds from the bill.

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          plurality /ploo͝-răl′ĭ-tē/

          noun

          1. The state or fact of being plural.
          2. A large number or amount; a multitude.

          Had to look it up. So you agree you were mistaken that it was “mostly” or all related to fossil-fuel vehicle infrastructure? Or at least it’s not mostly highways then?

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            Plurality also means receiving the most out of all recipients but without receiving a majority. Like our elections.

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      There was some stuff for rehabilitating our rail corridors. Not enough, of course, but it was there.

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        oh sure there’s things in it that could be considered beneficial to the climate. all vastly outweighed by the climate damage of the hundreds of billions going to highways.

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          It’s the infrastructure bill, not the climate change bill. Which, btw, Biden passed the largest climate change bill in world history but you just keep trying to convince people that Biden bad.

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            It is a climate change bill, its accelerating climate change.

            Dont worry i know about that other bill too, the one that opened up millions of acres of new oil drilling