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Funding under this program was made available by the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, and the Consolidated Appropriations Acts of 2019, 2018, and 2017.
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Illinois DOT received more than $177 million for a passenger rail project between Chicago and the Quad Cities. Georgia DOT was awarded $4.1 million to complete plans and an environmental study for a 250-mile passenger rail corridor between Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., and the D.C. DOT received $2.9 million for potential bridge replacement.
Read More →The legislation would authorize Amtrak for the next four years at an average $1.65 billion a year. Additionally, $570 million in total grant funding would be made available every year.
Read More →Operation Lifesaver has awarded $219,155 for rail safety public awareness campaigns in 11 states.
Read More →The Federal Railroad Administration has been directed to withdraw $175 million from four California High-Speed Rail projects as federal officials raise concerns over the multibillion-dollar rail effort.
Read More →Federal Transit Administrator Marc Molinaro recently addressed the crowd at the APTA's TRANSform Conference, which was held Sept. 14 to 17 in Boston.
Read More →Selected projects will improve existing rail corridors and create new ones, broadening access to intercity passenger rail services for communities across the country.
Read More →Announced earlier this month, the funding opportunity aims to accelerate the transition to clean energy vehicles, improve service reliability, and modernize aging bus infrastructure across the U.S.
Read More →For manufacture of approximately 130 new bi-level passenger cars. Comes from a multi-state effort to jointly purchase standardized rail equipment to be used on Amtrak’s intercity routes in California, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Missouri. Funding is being provided by the FRA’s High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail Program.
Read More →Awards vary in size and scope ranging from $500,000 to $2M , and include private corporations, academic institutions and public authorities. Recipients include Southern California Regional Rail Authority, Amtrak and New York Metropolitan Transit Authority.
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