On Dec. 15, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a total of $511 million in grants for 46 transportation projects—29 percent public transportation-related—through the third round of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER III) program. The announcement comes months ahead of schedule.

Public transportation projects receiving funds are: Chicago Transit Authority, $20 million for Blue Line rail; Charlotte Area Transit System, Charlotte, NC, $18 million to expand LYNX light rail; VIA Metropolitan Transit, San Antonio, TX, $15 million for development of the city’s first multimodal transportation hub; Illinois, $13.8 million for an intermodal transportation center adjacent to the Alton High-Speed Rail station; Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, $12.5 million for infrastructure support; Cincinnati, $10.9 million for a streetcar project; Philadelphia, $10 million to upgrade 100 transit signals on three transit arteries; Seattle’s Sound Transit, $10 million for extension of a light rail line; and Hennepin County (MN) Regional Railroad Authority, $10 million for a new station and passenger platform.

These funds are in addition to direct appropriations to the public transit program.

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