Fifty-One Projects Receive Tiger Grants

By Audrey Dutton

Published February 17, 2010, 10:57 a.m. EST

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Updated February 17, 2010, 11:19 a.m. EST

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WASHINGTON --The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced 51 projects that will receive grants from the $1.5 billion Transportation Investment Generation Economic Recovery, or TIGER, program.

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Awards larger than $50 million were made to Crescent Corridor Intermodal Freight Rail Project in Tennessee and Alabama, at $105 million; Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program, at $100 million; National Gateway Freight Rail Corridor in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland, at $98 million; Moynihan Station, Phase 1 in New York, at $83 million; Tucson Modern Streetcar in Arizona, at $63 million; Priority Bus Transit in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland, at $58.8 million; and Fitchburg Commuter Rail Extension and Wachusett Station in Massachusetts, at $55.5 million.

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