Whatcom County in Washington will get $25 million to replace a 60-year-old ferry serving rural Lummi Island with an electric hybrid model.įrom the archives (March 2022): Public transit gets $3.02.22.23 Address to the Alaska State Legislature
In Louisiana, $20 million will go toward the design and construction of two train stations along a planned route between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. This year’s projects range from a new seawall and port improvements in Sitka, Alaska, to the construction of a four-lane parkway in the Virgin Islands.Īmong other projects, New Jersey is getting $20 million to elevate a roadway that serves as a main evacuation route for Atlantic City and its casino industry. That’s because inflation has driven up the cost of key transportation construction materials, such as steel plates for bridges and asphalt for paving roads. Though still substantial, the funding doesn’t have quite the buying power as anticipated when the infrastructure legislation passed Congress last year. The allotment is the largest dating to 2009 for a program that has undergone multiple name and emphasis changes during the presidential administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
The funding marks a significant increase from the $983 million distributed among 90 projects in 2021. Department of Transportation received about $13 billion in grant applications.Ī total of 166 projects across the country are getting a slice of the $2.2 billion. Greg Stanton and Ruben Gallego and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego as he announced the awarding on Thursday of a federal grant at the Rio Salado Audubon Center in Phoenix.īuttigieg said the U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was backed by, from left, U.S. See: House passes Democrats’ climate, healthcare and tax bill in 220-207 vote, sending it to Biden to be signed into law The money also will fund a 10-foot-wide multipurpose path along the street and plant more than 250 trees.įor many road improvement grants, “we’re doing it in mind of also benefitting the bike and pedestrian side,” Buttigieg said. For example, a $17 million grant will help narrow a five-lane road to three lanes in the Chicago suburb of Munster, Ind., in an effort to decrease traffic crashes. While the Tucson project will expand the number lanes for motorists, some projects elsewhere will reduce them. It also will add a separate bicycle and pedestrian bridge as part of what Mayor Regina Romero called “a transformative investment in Tucson’s infrastructure.” In Tucson, the money will revamp a prominent street and replace a 1960s-era vehicle bridge that’s in poor condition. “ A total of 166 projects across the country successfully competed for slices of the $2.2 billion.
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