DEPARTMENT: Transportation and Capital Improvements (TCI)
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Briefing on transportation grant submittals for federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) and state Highway Safety Improvements Program (HSIP) funds.
SUMMARY:
A briefing on two transportation grant submittals. Projects selected to receive these awards are to be announced in late Fall 2015.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
TIGER is a federal grant that funds major infrastructure projects which provide economic benefit to communities. TIGER funding is nationally competitive with approximately $500 million in funds available this year. TCI currently is requesting TIGER funding for two projects: Presa Ramps and the Broadway Corridor. The total TIGER funding request for these two projects is $30 million.
HSIP is a federally funded grant program through TxDOT for transportation safety improvements in areas that have TxDOT crash data which involved a fatality in the last three years (TxDOT projects also qualify for submittal). HSIP funding is competitive statewide with approximately $150 million in funds available this year. HSIP funds are being requested in the amount of approximately $2 million to fund and install 13 school flashers and four traffic signals to improve pedestrian safety.
ISSUE:
The City of San Antonio is preparing two submittals for TIGER and one submittal for HSIP that includes 17 improvements.
Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER)
Presa Street Ramps
The first TIGER submittal is for "I-90 Presa Street Ramps: Connecting Commerce to Neighborhoods". This project is for an exit ramp from Highway 90 east to the Presa Street commercial corridor. Presa Street, which runs parallel to the San Antonio River, was historically a major corridor to downtown from the southeast. When Highway 90 was built in the 1960s, it created a clover leaf over th...
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