Biden-Harris Administration, USDOT Make an Unprecedented $1.4 Billion in Rail Grants Available Through Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
New Funding Will Improve America’s Freight and Passenger Rail Network, Strengthen Supply Chains, and Lay the Groundwork for Future Growth WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Transportation today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcing the availability of over $1.4 billion in Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement (CRISI) Grant funding. The CRISI Program, which is administered by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), advances projects that modernize...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $513.2 Million in Emergency Relief for Roads and Bridges Damaged by Natural Disaster and Catastrophic Events
Funds help states address ongoing impacts of climate change and severe weather FHWA 33-22 Contact: [email protected] Tel.: (202) 366-0660 WASHINGTON – In an ongoing effort to help states repair and rebuild critical infrastructure that resident and businesses rely on following extreme weather events that are becoming more frequent, hard to predict, and severe due to changing climate, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announc...
Army Corps, Maryland DOT sign agreement to commence $4 billion Chesapeake Bay restoration project
USACE, Baltimore District, Commander Col. Estee S. Pinchasin signs a Project Partnership Agreement with Maryland Department of Transportation Secretary James F. Ports Jr. for the $4 billion Mid-Chesapeake Bay ecosystem restoration project at MDOT headquarters, Aug. 23, 2022. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, and the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) signed a Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) for the $4 billion Mid-Chesapeake Bay ecosystem res...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $35 Million Grant for Bus Rapid Transit Project in Raleigh
President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law makes historic investments to support better, more reliable transit service WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a $35 million construction grant award to the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, for its new bus rapid transit (BRT) line along the New Bern Avenue corridor. The first piece of an ambitious transit expansion program, the BRT line will connect people who want to travel be...
On Nationwide Building a Better America Tour, FHWA Acting Administrator Announces Funding from President Biden’s Infrastructure Law for New Pathways to Equity Project in Pittsburgh
Project will improve mobility, connectivity, quality of life and economic opportunity for residents in a disadvantaged community Pittsburgh, PA -- Today, Acting Federal Highway Administrator Stephanie Pollack announced that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded a $11.3 million grant from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to revitalize the Hill District neighborhood. The project will improve pedestrian infrastructure and make other enhance...
President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Help Communities Reduce Vulnerability to Drought
Over $310 million investment will support 25 projects bringing water to more than 850,000 per year IRVINE, CA — Following a tour of the Syphon Reservoir Improvement Project at the Irvine Ranch Water District today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton announced the allocation of $309.8 million in funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and $1 million in appropriated funding for the planning, design and constr...
FHWA Announces $100 Million in Grant Awards, $125 Million in New Funding Availability for Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects
Native Village of Eyak in Alaska will receive $45.7 Million for the construction of a highway, dock support facilities and boat ramp at Shepard Point Oil Spill Response Facility National Park Service in Mississippi will receive $54.3 Million to rehabilitate and improve the safety of an 83‐mile section of the Natchez Trace Parkway WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced $100 million in Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021 grant...
FHWA, FTA Award $49M In Technology Grants
The Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration issued a combined $49.2 million in technology grants through two separate yet related programs to improve “mobility and multimodal connections” for those using the U.S. highway and transit systems. [Above photo by the Alabama Governor’s Office] The two agencies said those grants apply to technologies ranging from systems that detect and prevent wrong-way crashes to advanced technology that improves trucking operations an...
USDOT Issues Over $2B In New RAISE Grants
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently awarded more than $2.2 billion in grants from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity or RAISE program to help urban and rural communities move forward on projects that modernize roads, bridges, transit, rail, ports, and intermodal transportation systems. [Above photo by the USDOT] Formerly known as the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development or BUILD program under the Trump administration and the Tra...
Biden Administration Awards $49.2 Million for Innovative Technology Grants to Improve Mobility and Travel on America’s Highway and Transit Systems
Program to be Expanded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law FHWA 27-22 Contact: [email protected] Tel.: (202) 366-0660 WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) together awarded $49.2 million in innovative technology grants to improve mobility and multimodal connections for millions of Americans who travel on our nation’s highway and transit systems. Grants can be applied...
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