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$1.5B in BUILD Grants Includes $195M for Public Transportation
DOT Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced nearly $1.5 billion in FY 2018 Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant awards—of which 13 percent, totaling $195 million, were awarded to public transportation-related projects in 12 states and the District of Columbia—on Dec. 11.
Chao said the grants “serve as a down payment on this administration’s commitment to America’s infrastructure.”
APTA President and CEO Paul P. Skoutelas said, “We are encouraged that the percent of public transit grants has increased from the last fiscal year. These BUILD grants are critically important for communities and their economic vitality, and we urge DOT to continue to increase funding for public transportation projects.”
BUILD was previously known as the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. Since the inception of the TIGER program in 2009, public transportation projects have received an average of 29 percent of annual grant funds. In grants announced earlier this year, public transportation programs received 3.6 percent of FY 2017 funds.
The 15 public transportation projects that received funding are in the District of Columbia and the following states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas.
The largest individual grants for public transportation include:
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| At the announcement of federal BUILD grants, from left: DOT Deputy Secretary Jeff Rosen; Youngstown, OH, Mayor Jamael Brown; Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), chair, House Transportation and HUD Appropriations Subcommittee; Rep. David Price (D-NC), ranking member, House THUD Appropriations Subcommittee; and DOT Secretary Elaine L. Chao. |
* $25 million to the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) and city of Jacksonville, FL, for their Urban Core Riverfront Revitalization and Complete Streets/Bay Street Innovation Corridor. JTA’s part of the project will fund deployment of approximately 15 autonomous vehicles, dynamic connected traffic signals, smart lighting, pedestrian sensors, smart parking and floor warning sensors;
* $22 million for rail improvements in Springfield, IL, part of a larger effort to relocate the existing Amtrak/Union Pacific railroad corridor to a new expanded corridor adjacent to the existing Norfolk Southern tracks;
* $20 million for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to reconstruct platforms and other station elements at seven outdoor Metrorail stations—the first part of a larger project that will affect 20 stations;
* $20 million to the Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority (GoTriangle), for construction of a new bus facility and structured parking to create a multimodal transit center in downtown Raleigh, NC;
* $15 million to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority for the “Better Market Street Phase 1” project, which includes a new streetcar turnaround and track replacement;
* $15 million to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to transform Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station to improve connections between SEPTA and Amtrak; and
* $14.4 million to the city of Oklahoma City for construction of a BRT line approximately eight miles long. Find the full list of BUILD grant awards for 2018 here.
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