The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has awarded $487.1 million to 41 highway, bridge, rail and other projects—a majority of them in rural areas—in the latest round of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program. (View summaries of winning projects here.)
The Trump administration proposed zeroing out funds for TIGER in fiscal 2018, but an industry source says Congress is likely to reject the proposal when a 2018 omnibus spending package emerges, perhaps in late March.