The Massachusetts Department of Transportation recently awarded more than $4.5 million to 11 municipalities as part of the first round of fiscal year 2025 grants via its Complete Streets Funding Program.
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The agency said in a statement that those grants will fund local multimodal infrastructure projects that improve travel for pedestrians, public transit users, bicyclists and people using other forms of transportation.
MassDOT added that its Complete Streets Funding Program – launched in 2016 – provides technical assistance and construction funding to eligible municipalities to plan and implement Complete Streets. Prior to this round of disbursements, the program had awarded 278 construction project grants across the state worth more than $100 million in total.
In separate statement, MassDOT added that it awarded three grants totaling $1.5 million from its Industrial Rail Access Program or IRAP to companies in Framingham, Haverhill, and Ware to increase freight rail access, reduce truck traffic, and create new jobs.
The agency said IRAP is a competitive state-funded, public-private partnership program that provides financial assistance to companies investing in rail infrastructure that directly leads to their increased use of the rail network and related reduction in regional truck traffic.
Grant recipients must match the MassDOT grant funds with other sources of funds totaling at least 40 percent of a project’s total cost, the agency added.
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