The U.S. Department of Transportation this week awarded $3.3B in discretionary infrastructure grants for its Reconnecting Communities program, which aims to reconnect city neighborhoods that were divided by interstate highways decades ago.
The round of funding, which is being distributed to 132 projects in 41 states, includes 72 planning grants, 52 capital construction grants and eight regional planning grants.
"While the purpose of transportation is to connect, in too many communities past infrastructure decisions have served instead to divide," U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said, in a statement, adding that the program will "deliver better infrastructure that reconnects residents to jobs, health care, and other essentials."
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