(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 16, 2014)
The $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last weekend includes $500 million for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program, holds allocations for the Federal Highway and Federal Transit administrations to the same amount of Highway Trust Fund dollars as in fiscal-year 2014, and maintains level funding for Amtrak, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Journal reported.
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