The Biden administration is awarding $800 million to redesign roads, improve sidewalks and make other upgrades to decrease traffic deaths.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will announce Wednesday it is awarding $800 million to redesign roads, improve sidewalks and make other upgrades to address the sharp increase in U.S. traffic deaths.
Most of the 510 awards for regional, local, and tribal initiatives are for planning grants funded by a $5 billion, five-year program under the November 2021 infrastructure law.is also awarding 37 implementing grants funding low-cost measures like new sidewalks, crosswalks, protected bike lanes, roundabouts, speed bumps, better lighting, and speed-management strategies to slow cars in high-pedestrian traffic areas.
Buttigieg said preliminary data indicates 2022 traffic deaths"seem to have leveled off" near 2021 levels."We've got to change the plus sign to a minus sign," he said. The awards include $10.4 million for rural Fayette County, Iowa to add rumble strips along 50 miles; Missoula, Montana will get $9 million for new bike lanes, sidewalks and bus stops.
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