Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Champaign and MTD Transportation Updates


First on the MTD's federal grant applications for 2018 from the News-Gazette a couple weeks ago:
MTD misses out on another federal grant for downtown development
The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District lost out in its second bid for federal funding this year for the massive downtown Champaign development project called The Yards, but MTD officials said they plan to try again next year.

The district applied for two $25 million federal grants in connection with an expansion of its Illinois Terminal building, part of The Yards development.

District officials learned in September that the MTD wouldn’t receive one of those grants, a 5339 facilities grant, then got word this month that it also wasn’t on the list for 2018 federal BUILD grant funding...

“Although we didn’t receive a BUILD award this time around, the expansion to Illinois Terminal has tremendous support from our area legislators,” said MTD Managing Director Karl Gnadt.

“We intend to apply again,” Gnadt said. “It took us four attempts to be awarded the TIGER grant for MCORE, and the outcome has been transformative, especially on campus.”
More at the full article here. And the latest update on MCORE from the Champaign City Council meeting this week:
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In other business, the council approved details for the latest phase of the MCORE road project, which will see Wright Street and Armory Avenue repaved.

Up to this point, the project was funded by a federal TIGER grant, but the rest will come from local money in the form of matching funds.

Total cost for "project 4" is about $13.2 million, and construction is expect to start in March and end by December 2020.
Full article here. More on the MCORE phases here at the project website. Phase map below:


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