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6/3/2022
More than $120 million in federal Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Program (CRISI) grant funding was awarded this week to projects designed to expand and/or improve passenger-rail service.
The Federal Railroad Administration yesterday announced the CRISI grant winners for fiscal-year 2021. A total of more than $368 million in federal funding was awarded for freight- and passenger-rail projects.
The grant funding and passenger-rail related projects include:• $57.9 million to perform surveys and complete preliminary engineering for Raleigh-to-Richmond (R2R) Corridor Program improvements between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia. Included in this project is the construction of a grade separation on the S-Line in Wake Forest, North Carolina. The project will advance the next phase of the R2R corridor development, which will eventually result in new intercity passenger-rail service;• $15.9 million awarded to Brightline Trains Florida LLC to advance preliminary engineering activities for the proposed 67-mile extension of a high-speed rail line from Orlando to Tampa, Florida;• $13.9 million for environmental review, preliminary engineering, final design and construction of a new station to accommodate increased service as part of the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield Rail Program in Connecticut;• $10 million to complete preliminary engineering and environmental review for track and signal improvements to increase passenger- and freight-rail capacity, including double-tracking and other track and signal improvements, in the Pacific Northwest High-Speed Rail Corridor between Tacoma, Lakewood and DuPont, Washington;• $8 million for a three-year mechanical craft workforce development apprenticeship training program for current and future Amtrak employees; • $8 million to replace a 100-year-old Pacific Surfliner bridge located along a double-track segment of the Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) rail corridor in California;• $6.4 million for the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority to improve a train station in Ettrick, Virginia, which will support development of new intercity passenger-rail service; and• $1.75 million to develop preliminary engineering and environmental clearance for track, signal and infrastructure improvements around Springfield Union Station in Massachusetts.