WA transportation projects score nearly $90M in federal grants

Eight transportation projects in Washington will receive a combined $89.7 million in federal grant funding, Democratic members of the state’s congressional delegation said this week.

The largest grant, $25 million awarded to King County Parks, will go toward closing a gap in a planned 42-mile bicycle and pedestrian trail – known as the Eastrail – between Renton and Snohomish County. The portion of the project the grant will partially pay for will involve retrofitting a steel bridge that crosses over 16 lanes of Interstate 90.

Grants in the $17 million to $18 million range will go to a street project in Vancouver, constructing a transit maintenance facility to accommodate electric buses in Kitsap County, and helping the Port of Bellingham reconnect its docks to a nearby rail line.

The lawmakers said Washington’s total funding haul is the most any state secured this year through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity, or RAISE, program. Sen. Patty Murray, of Washington, played a leading role in establishing the program in 2009.

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