https://smartgrowthamerica.org/app/uploads/2020/04/SGA-T4A-Lessons-from-the-2009-Stimulus.pdf

Between 2009 and 2010, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA, commonly known as “the stimulus”) gave states $26 billion in flexible dollars to spend on surface transportation capital projects and $8.4 billion in funding for public transportation capital projects. Because the purpose was to create jobs, the funds came with the requirement that states report how they spent that money, and how many jobs they created with it.

The United States now needs another stimulus. …

This report reviews broad lessons from transportation spending in the last stimulus, especially how that spending was used to varying degrees of success to create jobs and support short- and long-term recovery. …