The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is issuing more than $275 million as part of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program this year, providing grant funds to freight projects.
It is the most money yet given out through the competitive program and represents 56 percent of its total, current funds. Funding requests through the program had reached $6.15 billion this round, though.
“Investment in goods movement infrastructure is an economic multiplier,” Tim Lovain, chairman of the Coalition for America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors (CAGTC), said. “The multimodal freight network directly supports 44 million U.S. jobs and the indirect benefits extend to every corner of our national economy.”
Several of CAGTC’s own members were supported by the grants. One of them is in North Carolina, wherein a company named Dewberry applied for the state department of transportation’s Blue Ridge Road Grade Separation and Intersection Improvements project. For a project that will cost $33.46 million, it gained $19.9 million from TIGER. Similarly, Spokane Valley, Washington, has received more than $9 million for a project called Bridging the Valley: Barker Road Grade Separation Project.