Within the waning weeks of the Biden administration, federal businesses licensed almost $9 billion in grants and loans for transportation and infrastructure initiatives.
The U.S. Division of Transportation’s Construct America Bureau loaned $1.89 billion to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey towards the reconstruction of New York Metropolis’s midtown bus terminal, which serves commuter and intercity buses. The mortgage will assist substitute the dilapidated 74-year-old bus terminal, which serves over a quarter-million passengers a day, with a contemporary, expanded facility.
Grant awards ranged throughout packages focusing on rural mobility wants, bus fast transit, airports, EV charging and pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.
Grants by federal transportation businesses so far in January consisted of the next.
Division of Transportation:
- $1.32 billion for 109 infrastructure initiatives below the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Fairness discretionary grant program. Awards included off-street bike lanes, ADA-compliant sidewalks and roadway widening in Flagstaff, Arizona; road enhancements in Sarasota, Florida; and rehabilitation of the West Newton Bridge in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
- $785 million for twenty-four initiatives by means of the Rural Floor Transportation Grant Program. Initiatives included changing a bridge in Cullman, Alabama, and changing grime roads in two Kansas counties with paved roads and stormwater infrastructure.
- $544 million for 81 communities below the Reconnecting Communities Pilot discretionary grant program. Practically $27 million will go to the Housing Authority of the Metropolis of Los Angeles to create a community of accessible pathways within the Watts neighborhood, whereas greater than $85 million will go to deck over a block-long part of U.S. Route 40 in Baltimore.
- Greater than $332 million for 171 initiatives by means of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Infrastructure Grants program. Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport will get $84.3 million for a brand new taxiway and bridge, and $6.7 million will go to the Tallahessee Worldwide Airport in Florida for 2 new taxiways and different enhancements.
Federal Freeway Administration:
- $635 million for 49 initiatives to put in greater than 11,500 electrical car charging ports, together with hydrogen and pure gasoline refueling infrastructure, throughout 27 states, tribal communities and the District of Columbia.
- $44.5 million in grants to 14 initiatives below the Lively Transportation Infrastructure Funding Program. Detroit will get $10.5 million to construct a portion of a greenway alongside a former rail hall; the Metropolitan Authorities of Nashville-Davidson County will obtain almost $9.4 million to attach a traditionally underserved neighborhood with downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
Federal Transit Administration:
Federal Railroad Administration:
In saying a choice of these initiatives Jan. 10, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg mentioned these grants will “additional modernize our roads and rails, construct out a nationwide EV charger community, and be certain that transportation within the twenty first century lives as much as its primary promise and connects extra communities throughout our nation.”