USDOT Awards Grants to Enhance Truck Parking, Freight Motion – Fleet Administration
The Infrastructure for Rebuilding America aggressive grant program has awarded $1.5 billion to initiatives throughout the nation, which embody a number of truck-related initiatives.
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The Biden-Harris Administration has awarded $1.5 billion from the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) aggressive grant program to initiatives that can enhance freight actions and remove provide chain bottlenecks.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation elevated funding for the INFRA program by greater than 50% to assist meet excessive demand for federal funding to help initiatives throughout the nation. Over the subsequent 5 years, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation will present roughly $8 billion for the INFRA program, together with the $1.5 billion made accessible on this spherical of funding.
This yr’s INFRA grant venture recipients embody the next truck-related initiatives:
I-4 West Central Florida Truck Parking Facility: $15,000,000
In West Central Florida, USDOT is investing in a venture that can sort out the scarcity of economic truck parking on a hall between Tampa and Orlando, which carries a median of 18,000 vans every day.
The venture will assemble a brand new truck parking facility with roughly 120 areas, electrical charging stations, and pedestrian infrastructure to entry close by business facilities.
The truck parking facility shall be related to the Florida Division of Transportation’s Truck Parking Availability System to help business car drivers in figuring out accessible parking places and can embody at the least six electrical hookups to offer stand-by energy for refrigerated vans and auxiliary energy for in-cab comforts.
I-40 Truck Parking and Bridge Alternative: $22,600,000
The Tennessee Division of Transportation will improve welcome heart ramps to fulfill present requirements, add roughly 125 truck parking areas, and improve the adjoining bridge buildings on I-40 over the Caney Fork River.
The venture will increase entry to truck parking and reduces illegally parked business autos that trigger security hazards, each supporting the Nationwide Roadway Security Technique, and bettering operations and effectivity on a important freight hall.
Otay Mesa East Port of Entry Challenge: $150,000,000
The California Division of Transportation will assemble a brand new toll highway (State Route 11) and Port of Entry (POE) facility at Otay Mesa. The brand new Port of Entry will present another for almost 3,600 vans that cross the present Otay Mesa and Tecate Ports of Entry every day, that are working at capability.
The venture facilitates freight motion throughout borders with locations at close by distribution facilities and warehouses, the Ports of Los Angeles and Lengthy Seashore, and the Inland Empire’s mega-distribution facilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
Presque Isle Hall Challenge: $44,100,000
The venture will full Part II of a business two-lane bypass route of Presque Isle’s Principal Avenue (US Route 1) in Maine, developing an roughly 6.3-mile-long, two-lane freeway that can join US Route 1 south of town to the present bypass part already in service.
The bypass will enable vans to keep away from 147 business/residential driveways, 25 road intersections, 12 crosswalks, 9 stoplights and one railroad crossing. The bypass will cut back truck visitors at 5 recognized excessive crash places within the venture space and also will cut back emissions from visitors idling at intersections on the town, based on the venture description.
