The Biden-Harris administration announced today that it has awarded more than $570 million in funding for projects to help eliminate at-grade railroad crossings, places where rail tracks intersect with roads.
The Biden-Harris administration announced Monday that it has awarded more than $570 million in funding for 63 projects in 32 states aimed at reducing train-vehicle collisions and blocked rail crossings.
The funding is intended to helping communities eliminate at-grade railroad crossings, places where rail tracks intersect with roads, the Department of Transportation said in a release. The grant program is the first of its kind, with funding for the projects coming from President Biden’s $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure law.
“Whenever I travel and so often, even here at D.C., when I hear from mayors or members of Congress again and again, we hear stories of people who find that their days are disrupted by unsafe at-grade rail crossings where rail lines cross roadways, creating inconvenience.
The projects include a $36 million initiative to address railroad crossings in an area of Houston from which the FRA received more than 850 complaints of train blockages. Texas alone will receive funding for five projects totaling nearly $87 million.
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