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Car-Free Transportation Gets Boos from U.S. Grant Program [bloomberg.com]

 

By Laura Bliss, Photo: Jane Tyska/ Getty Images, Bloomberg City Lab, November 29, 2021

A federal grant program that had become a honeypot for rural highway-building in the Trump years has pivoted in favor of projects for sidewalks, bikes and public transit.

In the new tranche of almost $1 billion in RAISE grant selections from the U.S. Department of Transportation announced earlier this month, roads were the losers. RAISE — which stands for Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity — is the latest version of USDOT’s multimodal grant program, which has gone by other names and priorities under previous presidents.

Born under the Obama administration as TIGER grants (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery), the earliest iteration of the program doled out recession-era stimulus funds for streetcar extensions, pedestrian networks and other projects that didn’t easily qualify for traditional sources of funding. Redubbed BUILD (Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development) in the Trump years, the program mostly funded new roads and wider highways.

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