What you need to know:\u00a0Caltrans is awarding more than $51 million in planning grants to 89 projects to help make the state\u2019s transportation system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Of the total, $48.3 million (94 percent) will benefit disadvantaged communities.<\/p>\n
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SACRAMENTO, CA (July 9, 2024)<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0With a majority of funding coming from Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s clean transportation infrastructure package and the California Climate Commitment<\/a>,\u00a0Caltrans today awarded $51.4 million in planning grants for 89 sustainable, climate-resilient transportation projects throughout California to help communities better withstand the impacts of extreme weather events fueled by climate change.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The selected projects will help reduce planet-warming pollution, improve resiliency of the state highway system, enhance access to safe walkways and bike paths, and expand natural disaster preparedness.\u00a0Nearly $29 million comes from one-time state and federal sources made possible by Governor Newsom\u2019s historic $15 billion clean transportation package in the 2022-23 state budget to further the state\u2019s ambitious climate goals<\/a>.\u00a0Another $12.4 million comes from Senate Bill (SB) 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. The awards will fund project planning\u00a0and conceptual design efforts, helping move the projects closer to construction.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cCalifornia is at the forefront of planning transportation projects built to help underserved communities withstand the effects of climate change,\u201d said Caltrans Director Tony Tavares. \u201cBy working closely with local partners, we can maintain a sustainable, adaptable and resilient transportation system that will serve all Californians far into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In total, Caltrans will fund:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n View the complete list<\/a>\u00a0of this year\u2019s planning grant project awardees.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Caltrans awards transportation planning grants each year through a competitive process to encourage local and regional projects. Applications are evaluated on how projects advance state transportation and climate goals by identifying and addressing statewide, interregional, or regional transportation deficiencies on the highway system. The grant program began in the 2015-16 fiscal year. Since then, Caltrans has awarded 685 planning grants totaling $266 million, and more than 60 percent of those projects have been completed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SB 1 provides $5 billion\u00a0in transportation funding annually that is shared between state and local agencies. Road projects progress through construction phases more quickly based on the availability of SB 1 funds, including projects that are partially funded by SB 1.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Find more projects that are building California\u2019s climate-friendly future at\u00a0build.ca.gov<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0RebuildingCA.ca.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What you need to know:\u00a0Caltrans is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65890,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65889\/revisions\/65890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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