Federal infrastructure funding is coming to North Carolina and Pennsylvania! Recently, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced an award of $1.2 billion in grants for nine projects around the country. This includes projects in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. The funding for these projects is coming from the new National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Mega) discretionary grant program. 
 
In North Carolina, the Biden administration awarded $110 million to the North Carolina Department of Transportation to replace the Alligator River Bridge in Dare and Tyrrell Counties. The Alligator River Bridge is a critical hurricane evacuation route. The bridge will be converted from a swing bridge to modern high-rise fixed-span bridge. Changing the bridge from a swing bridge to a fixed-span is intended to improve travel times because the bridge will no longer have to close the roadway in order to let boat traffic through. 
 
In Pennsylvania, the Biden administration awarded $78 million to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for the Roosevelt Boulevard Multimodal Project in Philadelphia, PA. The project is intended to significantly decrease automobile crash rates on Roosevelt Boulevard, which has the highest crash rates in the city. The goal is to improve safety and accessibility, and to prioritize jobs for economically disadvantaged communities. 
 
If you are involved in infrastructure construction, and would like help bidding on or reviewing the contracts for these projects, or any other infrastructure construction projects, please contact Spilman’s Construction Practice Group.