More than $405 million in transit related projects included in FY23 congressionally directed spendin

President Joe Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, into law on Dec. 29, 2022, to fund government activities through Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The act includes $21.2 billion for public transit and $16.6 billion for passenger and freight rail. The bill also includes specific funding for projects designated as “community project funding/congressionally directed spending,” a designation that returned under the FY22 appropriations process.

The omnibus package included more than $406 million for more than 140 transit, passenger rail, transit access and transit-oriented development projects. The three accounts under the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) projects received designated funding includes Highway Infrastructure Programs, which included transit access projects, Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) and Transit Infrastructure Grants, which accounts for $360.5 million of the total transit related project spending. More than $13 million in funding for projects related to transit was included in the designations under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Fund.

The project to receive the highest amount of designated funding is Connecticut Department of Transportation’s New Haven Line—Track Speed Improvement Phase 1 (TIME), which will receive $12 million through the CRISI account.

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Projects to receive funding through the Community Development Fund include transit-oriented development and feasibility studies, as well as $1.5 million to San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission for the Rail Academy of Central California—Rail/Transit Workforce Development Program and $750,000 to Capstone Community Action for Community Rides Vermont— Transit Properly Scaled for Rural Vermont, which aims to deliver improved zero-emission mobility options to rural Vermonters. ...........(more)

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