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The TIGER program is no more….in name

20 Apr 2018 | Posted by Alex Beckmann | 4 Comments | BUILD, federal funding, infrastructure, infrastructure plan, NOFO, President Trump, rural areas, state funding, TIGER, usdot

The TIGER grant program is now being called BUILD. While the criteria are essentially the same, there’s one big caveat. Under BUILD, USDOT will now require applicants to provide evidence that they have secured and committed new, non-federal revenue for projects requesting funding. And there’s a whole list of reasons why that’s a problem.

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Without a good transportation network, employees can’t work, employers can’t employ

17 Nov 2015 | Posted by Alex Beckmann | 0 Comments | employers, job access, jobs

A core function of our transportation network is to give everyone access to economic opportunity by making sure they’re easily connected to jobs. T4America director James Corless is participating in a policy roundtable later this week discussing the challenge for employers and employees alike, how some companies are responding, and how we can do better.

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Visionary group in Montana tells us their rural transit success story

21 Nov 2011 | Posted by Alex Beckmann | 5 Comments | montana, Partner Spotlight, rural, rural transit, transit, video

This group we visited with last week in Montana, Opportunity Link, received a welcome shot in the arm, announced just this morning: they received a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the 2011 Sustainable Communities regional planning grant program. 468 applications requesting more than $500 million in funding […]

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