Tulsa World
By RHETT MORGAN World Staff Writer
Published: 12/15/20111:08 PM
Last Modified: 12/15/20111:29 PM
CLAREMORE -- The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday denied a state request for a $9 million grant dedicated to an elevated railway project in Claremore.
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation had applied for a federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery -- or TIGER III -- grant. The money was to go toward a proposed $52 million project designed to mitigate railway-induced traffic congestion and public safety concerns in Claremore.
The only Tiger III grant awarded to Oklahoma was a $6.7 million grant earmarked for upgrading 49 miles of state-owned rail line in the Anadarko basin in Southwest Oklahoma.
“Back to the drawing board,” Claremore Mayor Mickey Perry said. “It was a tough deal even with that. We’re going to have to get together and put our heads together and see where we go from here.”
USDOT Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Thursday that 46 transportation projects in 33 states and Puerto Rico will receive a total of $511 million from the third round of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s popular TIGER program... FULL ARTICLE
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