New infrastructure grants from the Biden-Harris administration

Don’t believe everything you indoctrinate.

Perhaps you should focus on getting control of NJ teenagers.

They not only didn’t finish the wall they sold the wall materials that were already there ready to be put up.

The grants include nearly $2.5 billion in financing for the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, as well as nearly $1 billion through the Department of Agriculture’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program for six co-ops. The New ERA program, which uses $9.7 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funds, is the biggest federal investment in rural electrification since the New Deal in the 1930s

A new New Deal is happening right now.

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?

They built light rail here in Charlotte (still building more). I supported it. Still haven’t figured out what the federal government had to do with it. A better use of federal funds could have went to widening interstates and adding interchanges. Instead, we got tolls.