FHWA provides $8 million to 35 tribes for transportation safety improvement projects

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is providing roughly $8 million to 35 Native American tribes to complete 54 transportation safety improvement projects on tribal lands. The move is part of the agency’s Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund.

Seventy-three recognized tribes submitted 130 applications for the program, with a request total of $36.8 million.

“Road safety is important to communities everywhere, and especially on tribal lands,” says FHWA Administrator Gregory Nadeau. “From improving intersections to building bicycle or pedestrian paths, these new funds will help to make tribal communities safer and better equipped for the needs of the traveling public.”

FHWA says the funds are for safety planning, engineering improvements, enforcement and emergency services and education programs.

Some grant recipients include:

More information on the program, including the full list of projects, is available here.