Up to $2.4 billion available for freight, intercity railway safety infrastructure
Federal grants will help improve railroad safety, build supply chains and provide regional transportation
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New York to spend $111.1 million on rail lines and ports
Funding is largest amount ever awarded through New York’s Passenger and Freight Rail Assistance Program and will support 38 projects
FTA grants $631 million for new railcars in three states
Awards will replace older vehicles in the three cities with 300 new railcars
Kansas to spend $16.5 million on rural rail projects
Investments will help increase rail capacity and address any damaged or aging track
New Jersey receives $75 million for rail facilities damaged by Hurricane Ida
Plans call for replacing the 70-year-old and flood-prone Wood-Ridge facility with a larger, energy-efficient and modernized version on NJ TRANSIT property
Nevada receives $28 million grant to upgrade rail corridor
Upgrades on Union Pacific Railroad at the Elko Yard are one of 28 projects supported by the Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects program
DOT awards $31.4 million loan to two California rail systems
Loan will cover almost all project costs for both railroads, which will include rehabilitating a partially collapsed tunnel and other sections of existing track
DOT approves $2.5 billion for California-Nevada rail project
Private activity bonds will support initiative that will connect Las Vegas and Southern California
Los Angeles-area rail project lands $1 billion federal grant
Federal Transportation Agency (FTA) will cover half the cost of a $2 billion automated, elevated, fixed-guideway people mover in the city of Inglewood, California
Federal grant funds $1 billion expansion of East Coast passenger rail
Raleigh to Richmond route will span 162 miles as a critical line for the federal Southeast Corridor, which connects Washington, D.C., with Charlotte, North Carolina
