LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) will receive $785 million from the Federal Highway Administration.
It will be used as funding for ARDOT to continue improving roads and bridges in Arkansas.
Some cities, like Benton, are already seeing the impacts.
"Benton is unique in the fact that the majority of our thoroughfares are state highways," Matt Thibault with the City of Benton said.
Benton has seen many road improvement projects, like repaving Alcoa, Military and East streets. Thibault said that hadn't happened in more than 20 years.
Some of these projects are federally funded, and ARDOT received $785 million more to see projects like these finished.
"There's something called the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program," ARDOT Public Information Officer Dave Parker said. "We call it the STIP."
This is a list of projects across the state scheduled to be completed, whether road and bridge maintenance or new construction projects.
Here are some of the projects you could see coming soon:
- The next stretch of widening Cantrell in West Little Rock will start in 2025 and take at least two years to complete
- Interchange improvements to Interstate 67 in Cabot are expected to begin next year
- The creation of a new exit off the highway in Benton
"That's going to open up more commerce for us and businesses on one side of the interstate to access it," Thibault said.