USDOT announced this morning about $500 million in multimodal “TIGER” grants in 47 locations around the US. A combined DC/MD/VA regional application that would have funded $20 million worth of bike/ped projects near Metro stations, as well as bikesharing expansions in Montgomery and Arlington, was not funded. However, DC and MD worked together on one that was.

The winning application received $10 million in federal funds to help pay for a 4-mile extension of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail. The project will extend the trail along the east shore of the river, from Benning Road NE, through Kenilworth Gardens, to just shy of Bladensburg Road in Prince George’s County. It will include 5 bridge segments, and some raised sections.

This map shows the portion of the riverwalk that is being funded by TIGER. The pink dashed line in upper-right is the project.



TIGER funding is for the pink dashed line section in upper-right.





Location of Jefferson Co. West Virginia.

AnacostiaWaterfront.org has a press release with additional information.

Jefferson County, WV is also a winner

The TIGER grant process stipulated that some percentage of winners had to be in rural areas. One of those rural awards went to Jefferson County, WV, which is the next county west from Loudoun, and is only about 60 miles from DC. They received $5 million in federal funds to help pay for a $24 million project to convert Fairfax Boulevard through the town of Ranson into a complete street, extend Fairfax Boulevard to a retail area on the edge of town, and build a transit center in downtown Charles Town that when complete will be the transfer location for bus service to nearby MARC stations in Harper’s Ferry, WV and Brunswick, MD.

The Town of Ranson’s project fact sheet gives additional details, and I created a map showing the location of the projects.