More than $7.1 million in federal grants will be given to “cutting edge safety improvement projects” in eight states and National Park territory.
The Recipients Are ...Florida Department of Transportation: $1,000,000Kansas Department of Transportation: $1,000,000 Rhode Island DOT: $1,000,000 Washington State Department of Transportation: $1,000,000 RIDOT and the Rhode Island Airport Corporation: $996,000 Montana Department of Transportation: $816,000 Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Dodge County: $355,000 National Park Service: $296,800 Total: $7,139,800 |
The grant money is being provided through the Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration program. To date, since the launch in early 2014, the program has funded more than $27 million in grants to 38 federal, state, local and tribal agencies for transportation-related projects.
“Innovation requires creative thinking and investment,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx in the release. “These state DOTs, along with the National Park Service, are building roads and bridges that are saving time, money and lives. Now it’s up to Congress to pass a long-term transportation bill so that states have the resources to continue delivering better, more innovative infrastructure.”
Foxx also addressed the evolving demands on transportation infrastructure in the United States over the course of the next three decades. He said gridlock is expected to increase unless substantial changes are made across the board.