US Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy has announced a series of 180 new infrastructure grants for projects across the country.
The grants, which amount to more than 3.2 billion USD, will form part of a strategy to motion a portion of projects inherited from the previous government, with Secretary Duffy and the Department of Transportation having approved a total of 329 grants since taking office.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy, said:America is building again.
At the Department of Transportation, that means getting back to basics: Building More, Building Efficiently and Building Quickly.
Projects set to benefit from the grants include Alabama’s I-10 Bridge, which will receive 550 million USD for its Mobile River bridge and Bayway multimodal project, allowing for the replacement of the two existing Bayway Bridges.
The announcement also lists several grants intended for the funding of a number of rail programmes to be delivered by the Federal Railroad Administration (totalling 282.4 million USD), including:
- 157 million USD for the completion of the Springfield Rail Improvements project in Illinois
- 20 million USD for the Manistee River Bridge Replacement project in Michigan
- 30 million USD for the Gunpowder River Bridge replacement programme in Maryland
- 9.6 million USD for the Southwest Florida Rail Corridor Enhancement for Growth project in Florida
- 3.6 million USD for the Boston and Albany Corridor Identification and Development programme
Elsewhere, the grants include 497.4 million USD in funding for a number of bus programmes, 279 million USD in funding for the Federal Aviation Administration and 1.4 billion USD for the Federal Highway Administration.
A full list of grants & recipients can be downloaded here.
