Dive summary:

• In an audit of how the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is implementing provisions of the MAP-21 transportation legislation that call for speeding up project delivery, the agency's inspector general sees little to celebrate.
• After the law took effect, DOT came up with a plan that listed 42 actions the agency would take to get projects through the review process more quickly so that project delivery numbers would go up.
• The audit issued last month found that the agency had completed only five of 42 actions it came up with, was working on 34 more and had not begun yet on three.

From the article:

What is going to be the practical effect of delays to new projects? When will we see benefits of streamlined processes? ...