Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigiegi Doled Out $ 905 million in Wednesday infrastructure grants, including repairing the Cracking bridge in Seattle during a crippling heat wave and to expand the port in Iowa and Georgia to help reduce the number of greenhouse gas transmitter trucks on the streets on the road.
Money for 24 projects in 18 states is part of the federal administration administration shift to promote climate-friendly policy and race equity.
Federal assistance will also go to California to reduce traffic death in South Los Angeles and to Maine for bridge repairs.
“ Investment on time in our infrastructure will create jobs and support regional economies, while helping to spur innovation, facing climate change, and overcoming injustice throughout the country, “said Buttigieg.
The money was awarded Wednesday under the Department’s infrastructure to rebuild American programs offering a glimpse of how the administration hoped to direct the dollar of federal transportation in the coming months.
President Joe Biden is currently making his pitch for hundreds of billions in new infrastructure expenditures to repair roads and bridges that collapse, even though the results remain uncertain in Congress.
Under the grant program, Seattle will be awarded $ 11.3 million for major repairs at the West Seattle High Bridge, which was closed in March 2020 because of cracks in various locations, triggering alarms possibly collapsing, as well as street swing spokane.
The bridge runs adjacent to him.
The city has competed to spray and cool several bridges to avoid damage related to weather like a sink or gap because of the heat waves in the northwest.
Improving work to the bridge, the lifeline to West Seattle, is scheduled to last until mid 2022.
The city said that expecting to avoid the delay in repairs because the current detour that sent solid traffic to the surrounding low-income environment, adding pollution and road hazards for residents there.
“Restoring high Seattle high bridges to full capacity is very important for the ability of the Seattle area to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, ” Mayor Jenny was to be and city council members wrote in their application.
Iowa will get $ 5 million to increase capacity at Port and Rail Gavilon Marine facilities in Dubuque, help support fertilizer transport directly from Barge River to travel and reduce truck trips.
The authority of Port Georgia will receive $ 46.9 million to build a new inland container port along the i-85 / i-985 corridor in the Unincorporated area in Gainesville.
And the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority will get $ 49 million to help cover funds for repairs in Southport.
LOS ANGELES PROJECT, Meanwhile, will receive $ 18 million to help add 26 new traffic signals, separated new bicycle paths, tagging of high visibility junction, Bus Islands Bus, enhanced sidewalk ramps, and additional shade trees in parts of the city which is at least bush where pedestrians where pedestrians where pedestrians where pedestrians are and high bicycle death.
During the Trump government, the transportation department prioritizes road projects that drive car trips, with more than half of the funds usually go to rural areas, which are more than double the minimum of 25% set by the law.
On Wednesday, the department said 44% of his first award would go to rural projects.
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