Funding for programs of the Department of Transportation was included in the Omnibus Appropriations bill passed yesterday (November 20) by the House and Senate.
Here are some details from that measure of interest to our clients:
Federal Highway Administration
Overall funding of $35.5 billion.
Federal Railroad Administration
Amtrak receives $1.217 billion.
Next Generation High Speed Rail receives $19.65 million -- of that $ 2 million is for MagLev and $3.1 million is for planning of high-speed corridors.
Rail/Highway Crossing Elimination is set at $5.25 million.
Federal Transit Administration Overall funding of $7.708 billion. Major program elements as follows:
- Administration 78,000,000
- Transit Planning & Research 128,000,000
- Jobs Access Reverse Commute 125,000,000
- University Transportation Research 6,000,000
- Formula Grants 4,032,175,000
- Capital Grants 3,338,825,000
- (New Starts 1,449,425,000)
- (Rail Modernization 1,214,400,000)
- (Bus 675,000,000)
- TOTAL $ 7,708,000,000
New Starts Earmarks -- 57 Projects Received Earmarks. Here are the earmarks:
* Atlanta North Springs $ 265,410 * Baltimore Central LRT 29,010,000 * Birmingham Trans. Corridor 1,000,000 * Boston Silver Line 3,000,000 * Capital Metro (Austin) BRT 1,000,000 * CATRAIL RTC (Nevada) 1,000,000 * Charlotte So. Corridor 30,000,000 * Chicago Douglas Branch 85,000,000 * Chicago Ravenswood 40,000,000 * Cleveland Euclid Branch 25,000,000 * Dallas NW/SE Extension 8,000,000 * Denver SE Corridor 8,500,000 * Dulles (VA) Corridor 25,000,000 * Ft. Lauderdale Commuter 11,409,506 * Harrisburg Corridor One 2,000,000 * Hawaii and Alaska Ferries 10,296,000 * Houston Advanced Transit 8,000,000 * I-5/I-205/SR 50 Loop (WA/OR) 1,500,000 * Las Vegas Resort Corridor 30,000,000 * Little Rock River Rail 3,500,000 * Los Angeles MOS 3 675,103 * Los Angeles Eastside 60,000,000 * Los Angeles Gold Line 500,000 * Metra (IL) Extensions 52,000,000 * Minneapolis Hiawatha 33,698,453 * Minnesota Northstar 5,000,000 * Nashville Eastside Commuter 2,000,000 * NJ Trans-Hudson Midtown 1,200,000 * New Orleans Canal Street LRT 16,747,023 * New York Eastside Access 100,000,000 * Norfolk LRT 1,000,000 * NJ Hudson-Bergen MOS2 100,000,000 * NJ Newark Rail Link 319,463 * NJ Newark-Elizabeth 1,365,876 * PA Schuykill Valley Metro 10,000,000 * Phoenix LRT 75,000,000 * Pittsburgh North Shore 55,000,000 * Portland I-MAX 23,480,000 * Raleigh Triangle Transit 20,000,000 * Rhode Island Commuter 6,000,000 * Regional Commuter Rail (Utah) 8,000,000 * Salt Lake CBD to University 1,147,398 * Salt Lake Med. Center Extension 8,836,110 * San Diego Mid-Coast 1,000,000 * San Diego Mission Valley East 81,640,000 * San Diego Oceanside-Escondido 55,000,000 * San Fran BART to SFO 100,000,000 * San Francisco Muni 3rd St. LRT 10,000,000 * San Juan Tren Urbano 44,620,000 * Santa Clara Silicon Valley 2,500,000 * Seattle Central Link LRT 80,000,000 * Sounder (Seattle) Commuter 4,000,000 * So. Shore (IN) Corridor 2,000,000 * St. Louis St. Clair Extension 60,436 * Stamford (CT) Urban Transitway 3,000,000 * Washington Co. (OR) Commuter 9,000,000 * DC Largo Extension 76,770,615 Bus Earmarks -- Hundreds of Bus earmarks were included. We will be in touch individually on earmarks of interest. We are still reviewing the bill. There may be projects tucked away in places we have not found yet. These are the ones we have laid our eyes on.