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The awards require a nonfederal match, usually of 20% and generally by the organization receiving the grant.
The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, a longtime proponent of the CRISI program, celebrated that 81 of the projects involve short line railroads or their partners and account for $1.29 billion, or about 52% of the dollars awarded. The ASLRRA itself was recipient of a grant worth more than $20 million to improve short line infrastructure data.
All 122 rail projects listed in link.
Honestly, now that we get to see the itemized price tags on infrastructure policies, my enthusiasm is constantly tempered with disappointment. Turns out it’s not that expensive, even when decades overdue.
Makes me wonder what the electorate was doing in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Why leave everything broke? Was it laziness? What part of this was too hard to maintain?