Boston bridge secures $472 million MEGA grant for replacement, modernization
The Draw One Bridge carries rail traffic over the Charles River, connecting the cities of Boston and Cambridge.
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DOT awarding $260 million for New York City infrastructure projects
City officials say the two announcements represent the single largest day of competitive grant awards in New York City history.
Feds sending North Carolina $100M in emergency funds to repair roads, bridges damaged by Hurricane Helene
Western North Carolina was especially hard-hit, with significant damage to roadways from flash flooding, landslides, road washouts and bridge collapses.
Ohio receives $38 million to improve high-crash corridors
The funding will be used to reconstruct interchanges, build roundabouts, develop shared-use pathways and reduce the number of travel lanes
Federal Highway Administration allocating $62 billion for FY 2025 transportation projects
The funding represents the largest investment in American transportation infrastructure since the construction of the interstate highway system in the 1950s and 1960s.
Florida to distribute $47 million to reconstruct streets, improve safety
The Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program invests in community projects to build and renovate critical transportation infrastructure projects across the country.
Illinois receiving grants totaling $305.5 million to improve Chicago-area roads, rails
One of the projects being funded involves untangling the railroad tracks from the roadways so that trains, pedestrians, bicyclists and vehicles can more easily move through the community.
Public input sought on $6 billion Pacific Northwest interstate bridge project
Experts say the existing 100-year-old bridge that runs over the Columbia River would not survive an earthquake.
Illinois allocated $40 million to improve multimodal infrastructure, connectivity
The project will install solar lighting and green medians along a 1.8-mile stretch of road, build 2.9-miles of shared-use path, convert three intersections to roundabouts and rehabilitate a portion of the road to mitigate flooding.
$11B transit proposal on November ballot in Cobb County, Georgia
The bond initiative proposes a 1-cent sales tax to support, expand and improve Cobb County’s transit services over the next 30 years.
