ABC News – Today President Obama, Vice President Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will appear at the Department of Transportation today to celebrate the 2,000th transportation project funded by the stimulus package: a $68 million project in hard-hit Michigan to widen an interchange from four lanes to six.

The project will create an estimated 900 jobs over three years, though most of the construction work will take place next year through 2011.

The $787 billion stimulus bill contains $48.1 billion for transportation infrastructure projects. [read more…]