Stories tagged with TIGER

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Making Normal, Illinois the new “norm” for transportation planning
June 7, 2010
By Kathleen Woodruff

Last week, Transportation for America Director James Corless was in Normal, Illinois, a town of 45,000 and recipient of a $22 million grant for a new city transportation hub, touting the project as a model for smarter federal transportation spending in the next six-year transportation bill.

Will the TIGER grants reinforce metropolitan areas?
February 19, 2010
By Stephen Lee Davis

Rob Puentes of the Brookings Institution, writing for New Republic’s The Avenue, wrote a post this morning examining where transportation stimulus dollars have been directed. You can’t get too far reading the Brookings Metro Program without seeing a notable statistic: the 100 largest metro areas contain two-thirds of our population and produce 75 percent of [...]

TIGER Grants Offer Critical Support to Communities with Innovative Transportation Projects
February 17, 2010
By Transportation for America

The Obama Department of Transportation today broke historic ground in unveiling projects chosen in a first-ever program to award federal dollars on a competitive basis to innovative projects that address economic, environmental and travel issues at once. The 51 projects announced under the TIGER grant program, funded by $1.5 billion included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), meet a broad array of challenges.

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