Investing in America: Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1.8 Billion in Infrastructure Grants Across the Country

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From enhancing highway security to revitalizing communities and creating financial alternative, all 50 states, 4 territories, and the District of Columbia will obtain RAISE grants this 12 months from President Biden’s infrastructure legislation

WASHINGTON — Immediately, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg introduced $1.8 billion in awards from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Fairness (RAISE) discretionary grant program for 148 initiatives throughout the nation. Immediately’s announcement brings the entire quantity of Biden-Harris Administration RAISE grants to greater than $7.2 billion for over 550 initiatives throughout the nation.

“After decades of underinvestment, the condition of America’s infrastructure is now finally getting better instead of worse – and today we proudly announce our support for 148 more projects in communities of every size across the country,” stated U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “Through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we’re funding projects across the country to make roads safer, make it easier for people to move around their community, make transportation infrastructure more resilient to extreme weather, and improve supply chains to keep costs down for consumers.”

The aggressive and in style RAISE program, which was approved $1.5 billion a 12 months on high of already appropriated funds due to President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation, helps a various slate of communities with initiatives of native and regional significance. Funding is cut up equally between city and rural areas, and a big proportion of grants help areas outlined as traditionally deprived or areas of persistent poverty. The eligibility necessities of RAISE permit venture sponsors, together with state and native governments, counties, Tribal governments, transit companies, and port authorities, to pursue multi-modal and multi-jurisdictional initiatives which might be tougher to fund via different grant packages. RAISE discretionary grants put money into important freight and passenger transportation infrastructure initiatives that will in any other case not obtain the funding wanted if not for President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation.

RAISE is a keystone program of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, rebuilding and repairing important infrastructure utilizing American-made supplies and spurring historic ranges of personal sector funding in areas across the nation. Investing in key transportation infrastructure initiatives via packages like RAISE is rising the economic system from the center out and backside up, decreasing prices for households, and creating good-paying, union jobs for American employees of their house communities.

As in years previous, the demand for RAISE funding outpaced out there funds, with the Division receiving nearly $13 billion in requests for the $1.8 billion out there this 12 months.

Mission alternatives embrace:

• $25,000,000 for the Alaska Freeway Permafrost Degradation Restoration Mission in Fairbanks, Alaska – The venture will restore roughly 45 miles of the Alaska Freeway impacted by thawing permafrost and different local weather change-related degradation. The venture maintains and improves the mobility and neighborhood connectivity for Alaskans by making certain the one all-season overland hall between Alaska and the decrease 48 stays traversable. Security might be improved for roadway customers by addressing extreme highway situations related to the thawing permafrost. The enhancements can even make sure the roadway stays resilient to future local weather change.
• $23,529,000 for the Electrify Downeast Acadia Mission in Washington, Penobscot, and Hancock Counties, Maine – The venture will substitute Downeast Transportation Inc.’s bus fleet with 24 electrical buses and chargers, specializing in security, environmental sustainability, financial competitiveness, and innovation. The venture aligns with the U.S. Nationwide Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, decreasing greenhouse gasoline emissions and implementing charging infrastructure.
• $20,704,712 for the Joe Louis Meets the Iron Belle: Connecting Communities in Detroit Mission in Detroit, Michigan – The venture will fund the development of two shared-use paths within the Joe Louis Greenway and Iron Belle Path techniques. The enhancements might be made on Woodmere Road and Dequindre Road, specializing in security, environmental sustainability, high quality of life, mobility, financial competitiveness, and partnership. The venture will tackle security, scale back air air pollution, and enhance high quality of life via extra inexpensive transportation choices and goals to handle historic inequities brought on by transportation infrastructure.
• $3,906,652 for the Browning Streets Group Connectivity Planning Mission on the Blackfeet Reservation, Montana – The venture will fund planning and design for reconstructing streets in Browning, taking a Full Streets method to addressing roadway security and pedestrian points. Planning efforts will search to enhance entry to day by day locations whereas reducing dependency on motor autos.
• $12,044,800 for the Holloway Road: Protected Entry to Durham’s Busiest Transit Route Mission in Durham, North Carolina – The venture will enhance 33 intersections, together with ADA curb ramps and crosswalks, tighten curb radii, improve bus cease facilities, and shut sidewalk gaps. It focuses on security, environmental sustainability, high quality of life, mobility and neighborhood connectivity, financial competitiveness, partnership, collaboration, and innovation. The venture goals to cut back fatalities and accidents, scale back conflicts, and enhance connectivity for non-motorized vacationers. It additionally goals to cut back neighborhood reliance on vehicular site visitors, help electrification, and promote public well being. The venture additionally focuses on mobility and neighborhood connectivity, integrating ADA necessities and enhancing accessibility for no-motorized vacationers.
• $25,000,000 for the Santa Ana Boulevard Grade Separation Mission in Santa Ana, California – The venture will fund the reconstruction of an current rail crossing with the Southern California Regional Rail Authority Orange Line double tracks at Santa Ana Boulevard, adjoining to the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Middle, with a brand new multimodal grade separated underpass. The reconstructed roadway might be decreased from six-lanes to four-lanes with on-street protected bikeways, sidewalks, and a pedestrian overcrossing is included that parallels the rail line. Moreover, the venture will embrace connection to the long run Golden Loop path system, with 17.5 miles of deliberate path enhancements for entry to the broader Santa Ana path and leisure park community. Additionally, the venture will get rid of automobile idling when the at-grade crossing is closed, thereby enhancing air high quality for the encircling communities.
• $22,930,000 for the Lake Wales Full Streets Mission in Lake Wales, Florida – The venture will fund the Full Streets redevelopment of 4 highway segments in Lake Wales: 1st Road, Central Avenue, A Road, and Lincoln Avenue. Enhancements embrace a highway weight-reduction plan, a separated cycle observe, expanded ADA accessible sidewalks, security enhancements at crosswalks and railroad crossings, elevated shade tree cover cowl and rain gardens, lighting, underground high-speed fiber and streetlight energy sources, and streetscaping. The venture will shield non-motorized vacationers from security dangers by implementing a highway weight-reduction plan to cut back automobile speeds, including separated cycle tracks, buffering sidewalks, enhancing crosswalks, and upgrading lighting for improved visibility. The venture will create a extra inexpensive lively transportation community that improves public well being and connects the downtown and the industrial space of the Northwest Neighborhood.
• $19,108,645 for the Reconnect Toledo’s Historic Neighborhoods Mission in Toledo, Ohio – The venture will assemble roughly 4,184 toes of a one-mile multi-use path as a part of the Glass Metropolis Riverwalk venture. This venture gives for an off-road, shared-use facility that may permit cyclists and pedestrians to journey a protected distance away from autos, decreasing the variety of accidents. The venture additionally addresses the disproportionately unfavourable environmental impacts of transportation on native communities by decreasing publicity to elevated ranges of air, water, and noise air pollution, whereas enhancing the resilience of at-risk infrastructure towards excessive climate occasions and pure disasters brought on by local weather change.
• $24,944,683 for the Reconnecting the Allegheny Riverfront to Financial Alternative Mission within the Borough of Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania – The venture will plan, design, and assemble an roughly 300-foot bridge over the Conemaugh rail line, assemble extra roadway that connects to the riverfront district, assemble multi-use path on the shoreline of the river, and enhancements to roughly 6 bus stops alongside Important Road. The venture can even shield non-motorized vacationers from security dangers via the development of sidewalks and rail crossing the place there at the moment are none. This venture will help the Borough of Sharpsburg’s aim to make the hall environmentally pleasant by supporting lively and public transit and to be carbon impartial by 2050.
• $21,224,804 for the Wharf D Reconstruction and Resiliency Mission in San Juan County, Puerto Rico – The venture will plan, design, and reconstruct Wharf D of the Puerto Nuevo Docks. A aim of the venture is to considerably enhance protected working situations and high quality of life for terminal employees. By reconstructing Wharf D, well being advantages for workers and the encircling communities might be prioritized as employees will reap the advantages of operational efficiencies and all members of the neighborhood will expertise a lower in emissions brought on by idling vessels.

The complete listing of initiatives might be seen HERE.

The RAISE program is certainly one of a number of aggressive grant packages offering funding to communities throughout the nation below the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation. So far throughout the Biden-Harris Administration, practically $454 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation funding has been introduced to greater than 57,000 particular initiatives in all 50 states, D.C., and U.S. territories.

For extra data on the RAISE program, click on HERE.

For extra on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation’s investments throughout America, together with state-by-state, click on HERE.

Courtesy of U.S. Department of Transportation