The Minnesota Department of Transportation recently awarded $75 million via its Local Road Improvement Program or LRIP to help support 75 city, town, and county road projects statewide. [Above photo by the Minnesota DOT] Concurrently, the agency added that the state legislature – which established the LRIP in 2002 –appropriated an extra $110 million to […]

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation recently offered to assume responsibility for the 14,000 or so local streetlights on state roads in 39 cities and towns statewide. [Above photo by Prism Streetlights] That offer corrects what the agency termed a “decades old legacy issue” of uncertainty about which public entity is responsible for lights on […]

The New Jersey Department of Transportation recently awarded a total of $6.1 million in Airport Improvement Program or AIP grants to support 13 airport projects in 10 counties statewide. [Above photo by the South Jersey Regional Airport] Those projects include taxiway construction, lighting improvements, runway rehabilitation, and safety and security improvements, the agency said. “General […]

The Tennessee Department of Transportation, along with the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation (TDEC) and Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA), jointly promoted “pollinator health and awareness” in state parks during National Pollinator Week June 21-25. [Above photo of Monarch Butterfly via Wikimedia Commons] The three agencies formed a partnership in 2019 to support 64 […]