Governor Healy proposes $8 billion, 10-year transportation plan at Medway Local 4 training center

Governor Healy announced at the Local 4 training center in Medway that her administration is proposing an $8 billion plan to repair and modernize roads, bridges and transit across Massachusetts over the next 10 years.

The governor said the proposal would “spend $8,000,000,000 over the next 10 years to help fix roads and bridges and build out the kind of transportation infrastructure we need all over this state,” and that the funding would support both safety and job creation. “We estimate with this transportation funding, we’re also gonna create 40,000 jobs, good paying, family sustaining jobs,” she said.

Why it matters: Healy tied the plan to local needs in communities such as Medway, saying the funds would help the state’s 351 cities and towns pay for repairs and upgrades they cannot afford on their own. She and administration officials emphasized that the plan depends on both state fiscal measures and continued federal funding.

Administration and labor leaders…