infrastructure

Local Republican lawmakers are calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to keep millions of dollars in funding for a major infrastructure program in the 2025 state budget.

The document identifies nine policy areas with a focus on infrastructure issues like housing, broadband, transportation and climate strategies.

"We run 24/7, we have cars on all the time."

“What it would do is build a highway network through each small community, or large, and then individual service providers could tap into that network."

“As we continue to come out of this pandemic, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to not just get back to normal, but truly transform our county."

"We actually intended to be working currently, like this fall. But because of supply chain issues, fiber is one of the things that was hit particularly hard."

Funding from the $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure package signed into law last week, will soon start making its way down to local projects, including broadband internet access.

Some obstacles remain before much of that money starts flowing to projects in the Keystone State.

“I look forward to the benefits this historic investment will provide in modernizing our infrastructure for the future of Pennsylvania."

The Census Bureau also estimates the poverty rate in Scranton is nearly double that of Pennsylvania’s.