Transportation and Infrastructure

Alex understands that for California families and businesses to succeed, they need safe, reliable infrastructure they can count on. After years of unfulfilled promises from Washington, and decades of federal underinvestment in California’s infrastructure, Alex helped deliver the largest investment in our nation’s infrastructure in nearly a century. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is investing tens of billions in federal funding to California’s roads, bridges, public transportation, ports, and broadband—all while combating the climate crisis and creating good-paying, union jobs. Thanks to legislation that Alex authored as part of the new law, it is also strengthening our electrical grids (POWER On Act), ensuring access to clean drinking water (Drought Resiliency Investment Act), electrifying our school bus fleets (Clean Commute for Kids Act), and improving Tribal health infrastructure (Urban Indian Health Providers Facilities Improvement Act).

Recent News

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that the Contra Costa Transportation Authority and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will receive a combined $220.6 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to improve mobility along the Interstate...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, applauded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) invitations to seven California groups to apply for a combined...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that 56 California airports were awarded a combined $219.5 million in grant funding from the Federal Aviation Administration to upgrade aviation infrastructure. The funding comes through the Airport Improvement Program (AIP), which invests in...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that the Contra Costa Transportation Authority and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will receive a combined $220.6 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to improve mobility along the Interstate...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, applauded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) invitations to seven California groups to apply for a combined...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that 56 California airports were awarded a combined $219.5 million in grant funding from the Federal Aviation Administration to upgrade aviation infrastructure. The funding comes through the Airport Improvement Program (AIP), which invests in...
LOS ANGELES, CA — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Representative Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.-29) joined the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), Acting Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Administrator Veronica Vanterpool, and a host of state and local...
Over $420 million delivered to California to date for roadway safety through Bipartisan Infrastructure Law grants WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that 51 California projects were awarded over $152 million through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $149.7 million for five California projects to build zero-emission vehicle charging and fueling infrastructure, including over $100 million for medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission...
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $600 million grant to improve California’s electricity grid and build clean energy projects faster WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler (both D-Calif.) and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, announced that he secured several top water infrastructure priorities for California through the unanimous Senate passage of the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) announced that the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation advanced three bills introduced by Padilla to reduce earthquake hazards, combat extreme heat health risks, and strengthen cybersecurity and telecommunications on...
COMMERCE, CA — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was joined by senior leadership from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) to announce nearly...