(Mark Your Calendars: RealShare New Jersey 2011, September 13 in New Brunswick. RealShare New York takes place Oct. 12 at the Marriott Marquis.)
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ-Standing near the Park Avenue Bridge here, Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno announced plans for nearly $15 million in transportation and infrastructure grants for projects throughout the state. The renovation of the bridge is one of 95 total grants and projects to municipalities, counties and general aviation airports for infrastructure improvement and safety projects statewide totaling $14.65 million for projects of “well over $200 million,” Guadagno said. South Plainfield is receiving $3.5 million in local aid to help replace the bridge.
“This isn’t just a bridge and this isn’t just a great example of New Jersey working on its infrastructure and making it safe. It’s a great example of people going to work,” Guadagno said, during an address Monday afternoon, which can be viewed here. “This is going to create real jobs in New Jersey, but it’s also going to create optimism that New Jersey is turning itself around.”
The grants are being awarded through three programs, including 29 grants totaling $10 million through the Local Aid Infrastructure Fund (LAIF) program, 11 grants totaling $2.65 million through the Airport Improvement program and 55 grants totaling $2 million through the Safe Corridor program. The LAIF and Safe Corridor grants will benefit 78 different municipalities statewide. In addition, a total of 10 airports are receiving airport safety grants.
“We’ve had seven full months of sustained private sector growth,” Guadagno said in South Plainfield. “I have talked to at least 57 companies in my 100 Business Tour who have told us we need to be ready to get out of this recession, and get out of it strong, and get out of it ahead of every other state in the region and one of the ways we’re going to do this is by protecting our infrastructure.”
The LAIF grants include: $100,000 for a transit village streetscape project in Linden; $300,000 each to Bergenfield and Alpine for street resurfacing; a $290,000 award for a bikeway in Wildwood City; $250,000 for a streetscape in Roxbury, and $150,000 for safety improvements in Hackettstown.
Safe corridor grants include: $65,800 to Egg Harbor Township; $51,228 to Mount Laurel Township; $81,902 to North Brunswick Township; $90,807 to Howell Township; and $125,169 to Union Township.
Airport improvement grants include: $617,187 for runway crack repairs and markings at Trenton Robbinsville Airport; $570,000 for runway crack repairs and resurfacing at Flying W Airport in Burlington County; and $205,200 for aircraft tie-downs and new runway pavement at Central Jersey Regional Airport in Somerset County.
“It is a three-way street,” Guadagno continued. “Local, county, and state need to get together and work together to fix our infrastructure, not just because we can’t afford to do it, not just because what we’re doing is using your tax dollars in the best possible way, but because we need to be positioned here in New Jersey to have the best possible safe infrastructure for when we come out of this recession. And we know we’re coming out of this recession.”
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