Cincinnati streetcar wins $10.9M from feds
Dan Monk • Business Courier
The Cincinnati streetcar project will get a $10.9 million grant from the Tiger III federal program, a Congressional source tells the Business Courier.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is scheduled to announce grant awards in the competitive program, Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery. Congressional sources have been leaking news of the awards in advance of tomorrow’s announcement. Cincinnati was not on the list of $200 million awards compiled by a transportation blog site.
But a Congressional source said Cincinnati’s streetcar will be among the projects named in Wednesday’s announcement. The city sought $56.8 million for streetcar spurs running to the Banks and the Uptown neighborhoods near UC, as the Courier reported last month.
The city says it already has funding for a $99.5 million starter line, which would run from Findlay Market to Fountain Square.
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