See Which States Get a Piece of $426M in USDOT Grants to Battle Bottlenecks

Twelve U.S. states are set to get $426 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to address notorious congestion bottlenecks across the country.

This new round of grants will come from the Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects program to expand key bypasses used daily for freight trucks and to add lanes on some of the country’s busiest highways.

The 12 projects are:

• $6.7 million to the Wyoming Department of Transportation to rehabilitate the Interstate 80 Green River Tunnels from approximately reference marker 89.71 to 90.71 in southwestern Wyoming, repairing deteriorated concrete tunnel linings and installing dry pipe fire suppression and weather-monitoring infrastructure.
• $7.2 million for the City of Millville, New Jersey, construct an approximately 1.35-mile, two-lane extension of Nabb Avenue (CR 634) from West Main Street (NJ Route 49) to Fairton-Millville Road (CR 698).
• $11 million for the City of Norman, Oklahoma, to reconstruct approximately 1.79 miles of 24th Avenue NE between Rock Creek Road and Tecumseh Road in Norman, Oklahoma, converting an existing two-lane rural minor arterial into a three-lane corridor with a two-way left-turn lane.
• $11.3 million for the City of Savannah, Georgia, to support the construction of a new four-lane divided connector from I-516 to a realigned White Bluff Road, including improved storm culverts along a hurricane evacuation and port logistics route.
• $25 million for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to convert a four-lane expressway into an eight-lane standard freeway with median barriers and auxiliary lanes, eliminating a freight bottleneck on the National Highway System.
• $27.8 million for the Maine Department of Transportation to resurface approximately 44 miles of I-295 between Topsham and Portland, executing a documented risk mitigation strategy from the Maine Strategic Highway Safety Plan.
• $28 million for the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government in Louisiana to convert an existing signalized intersection into a grade-separated interchange, including ramps, flyover bridges, and roadway improvements along approximately 2.2 miles of Kaliste Saloom Rd. and approximately 3.5 miles of US-90.
• $42.1 million for the Missouri Department of Transportation to reconstruct the Cypress Road interchange on I-70 near St. Louis Lambert International Airport, replacing the signalized intersection at MO-115 with modern roundabouts, realigning entrance and exit ramps, and relocating the westbound collector-distributor entrance.
• $44 million for the Mississippi Department of Transportation expand an approximately 3-mile, fourlane segment of the I-55/I-69 corridor from Church Road to one mile north of SR 302 in DeSoto County, Mississippi, into a ten-lane facility.
• $53.5 million for the City of Wichita and the Kansas DOT to reconstruct and widen approximately 2.5 miles of roadway along K-96 from four to six lanes between Hydraulic Avenue and approximately 0.5 miles east of Oliver Street.
• $85 million for Florida DOT to construct a general use lane in each direction along approximately 20 miles of I-4 between State Road 434 and State Road 472 in Seminole and Volusia Counties.
• $85 million for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to construct an approximately 8-mile, four-lane highway in Somerset, Kentucky, creating a direct link between two designated Coal Haul Routes on Kentucky’s Extended Weight Coal Road System.