Secretary LaHood Announces More Than 70 Innovative Transportation Projects Competitively Funded Under TIGER II

October 20, 2010 - Forty-two capital construction projects and 33 planning projects in 40 states will share nearly $600 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation's popular TIGER II program for major infrastructure projects ranging from highways and bridges to transit, rail and ports, Secretary Ray LaHood announced today.

U.S. Department of Transportation Awards $34 Million to Tower 55 Improvements

Tower 55 TIGER II application was top priority for TxDOT, regional leaders

October 20, 2010 - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Wednesday that Texas’ Tower 55 – the vital rail intersection for freight and passenger traffic in Fort Worth, Texas - will receive $34 million under the TIGER II grant program.

Sen. Hutchison: Ft. Worth Wins $34 Million Grant to Complete Tower 55 Rail Project

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

October 15, 2010 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - Calling it a critical step "to ease congestion and improve safety at one of America's busiest rail intersections," U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) today announced that Fort Worth's Tower 55 rail project has been awarded a $34 million competitive grant by the Department of Transportation.

Mayor: Fort Worth has secured federal funding for railroad improvements

Fort Worth Star Telegram - Politex

October 15, 2010 - FORT WORTH, Texas - Mayor Mike Moncrief announced this morning that Congress has approved $34 million for the Tower 55 rail intersection near downtown.

Local leaders hope to address major mobility challenge as TxDOT applies for federal stimulus funds for Tower 55 rail intersection

Fort Worth Office of Media and Public Affairs

August 26, 2010 - FORT WORTH, Texas - The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has officially applied for $38 million in federal funding for the Tower 55 Multimodal Improvement Project.

Grant sought to help Fort Worth railroads out of a jam

Dallas Morning News

July 8, 2010 - Texas officials are asking the Obama administration to contribute nearly $60 million to help two of America's largest private railroads unsnarl a Fort Worth rail crossing that is one of the country's most traffic-jammed freight intersections. The so-called Tower 55 crossing in downtown Fort Worth needs additional tracks so not every train moving through the crowded freight intersection has to stop and wait for another, state and local officials said Wednesday during a tour of the crossing.

Partnering for transportation progress

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

July 8, 2010 - The U.S. Transportation Department is taking applications for a second round of national infrastructure projects to be funded out of federal coffers. According to the application website for the TIGER II grants, priority for distributing $600 million will be given to transportation improvements that have a "significant impact on desirable long-term outcomes for the nation, a metropolitan area or a region."

Elected officials climb aboard for tour of congested Tower 55 rail intersection

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

July 8, 2010 - At Tower 55, the more than 100 freight and passenger trains crossing the busy intersection daily must wait for a green or yellow signal to pass through.

If they get a red light, they must stop and wait, clogging the tracks and causing backups that can stretch for miles.

Railroad relocation may at last get state funding

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

June 11, 2010 - Nearly five years after voters approved a statewide rail relocation fund to help pay for removal of busy freight lines in congested metro areas such as Fort Worth, the account remains empty because state officials have put no money into it.

You wanted another round of TIGER grants, we've got another round of TIGER grants

Fast Lane - The Official Blog of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation

May 28, 2010 - We're calling it "Tiger II," and the application period is open! If you've been following DOT news, you know that I'm talking about the next round of our wildly successful Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery discretionary grant program. Funds in this program are available on a competitive basis to support capital investment in surface transportation projects. The projects must have a significant impact on the nation, a region, or a metropolitan area--and they must create jobs.

Texas leaders to try again for funding to fix rail intersection

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

May 27, 2010 - The effort to fix a dangerous and congested rail intersection near downtown Fort Worth known as Tower 55 may finally be on track.

Fort Worth rail bottleneck endangers young lives

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

March 08, 2010 - Fort Worth missed out on a $60.9 million federal economic stimulus grant that was supposed to be combined with money from the BNSF and Union Pacific railroads to help clear a crippling rail bottleneck southeast of downtown.

Gridlock at Tower 55 rail interchange hems in Fort Worth neighborhood

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

March 06, 2010 - Alice Cuellar has taught her children how to crawl under parked trains. In her Rock Island/Samuels Avenue neighborhood, homes are surrounded by railroad tracks stemming from the nearby Tower 55 railroad interchange, and streets are often blocked for 30 to 45 minutes, or even hours at a time.

USDOT doles out 51 TIGER grants for projects in 41 states, D.C.

ProgressiveRailroading.com

Feb. 18, 2010 - It took about six months, but the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has whittled down more than 1,400 applications for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants to 51. Yesterday, the agency announced the recipients, which include rail, transit, intermodal, port, bridge and highway projects in 41 states and the District of Columbia.