PORTLAND — A rail project that’s repairing and overhauling rail, ties, crossings and signal systems is getting a $20 million boost from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Sen. Susan Collins says the grant will “help to rebuild and upgrade our state’s railway system, create jobs in Maine, and provide increased public safety for our communities.”
The so-called TIGER grant comes from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program. The money will cover 54 percent of the cost of the project to rehabilitate roughly 380 miles of track throughout Maine to remove longstanding bottlenecks and create faster and more reliable freight service.
Collins is chairwoman of the Senate’s transportation, housing, and urban development appropriations subcommittee. She was briefed on the grant by Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
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