Projects in Ohio, Detroit and Philadelphia will receive a share of nearly $1 billion in U.S. Department of Transportation Rebuilding American Infrastructure With Sustainability and Equity grants.
The Michigan Department of Transportation will receive $10 million to be used for the New Center Intermodal Facility Project.
Project plans include a new station to serve Amtrak trains and local and intercity buses that will replace an existing depot in the New Center neighborhood of Detroit.
The new facility will comply with Americans with Disabilities standards and have a multi-level parking garage.
It will be located on the south side of the Canadian National tracks used by Amtrak’s Chicago-Detroit (Pontiac) Wolverine Service trains.
The existing boarding platform at the site will be lengthened and rehabilitated. The boarding platform will be connected to the new station by a tunnel.
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority will receive $15 million to improve the 19th Street and 37th Street trolley subway stations.
That work is part of a larger trolley modernization program. The RAISE Grant will be used to bring both stations into compliance with ADA standards, rehabilitate boarding areas and conduct other renovations to station facilities.
The Maumee Watershed Conservancy District of Findlay will receive $7.1 million for replacement of a bridge carrying Norfolk Southern tracks over the Blanchard River.
The new bridge will be a three-span, through plate girder structure with a ballast deck.
RAISE grants are one of the few USDOT discretionary programs that allow regional and local governments to directly compete for multimodal transportation funding.
The funding provide are to be used for “planning and capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure and were awarded on a competitive basis for projects that will have a significant local or regional impact,” USDOT said in a news release.
The maximum grant award is $25 million with no more than $100 million being awarded to a single state.
Tags: Amtrak, Amtrak stations, Amtrak Wolverine Service, Detroit, federal grants, Maumee Watershed Conservancy District, Norfolk Southern, Philadelphia, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, U.S. Department of Transportation
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