By Mischa Wanek-Libman, Editor, RT&S Magazine; April 23, 2018
The U.S. Department of Transportation is retiring the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program name and will award the $1.5 billion available in discretionary grant funding as Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grants.
The BUILD grant program has three times more in available money as recent TIGER programs and will continue to award projects on a competitive basis that have a significant local or regional impact. BUILD funding can support roads, bridges, transit, rail, ports or intermodal transportation.
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