Sentence examples for transportation grants from inspiring English sources
The aging bridge, in ill repair, was set to receive $20 million in transportation grants.
It will be only advisory but could determine where government agencies funnel future transportation grants.
The agency can rely on outside assistance -- mostly federal transportation grants -- for less than one-third of the money needed for the maintenance and repair portion of its capital plan.
Though he admits it is a long shot, Gov. George E. Pataki has asked the Bush administration to offer a combination of disaster aid, tax-free bonds, supplements for city and state budgets, and transportation grants that total $54 billion.
Unlike the High Line in Manhattan, the restoration of the High Bridge never attracted wealthy private donors and instead had to rely entirely on public financing in tough fiscal times: $50 million from city coffers, and an additional $12 million in federal transportation grants.
The law, approved this month by Congress as part of a $58 billion transportation spending bill, requires states to either adopt the new standard -- which declares drivers legally drunk when their blood alcohol level reaches 0.08percentt -- by 2007 or lose millions in federal transportation grants each year.
It should be a model for future transportation grant programs.
The Republican budget bill also called for cutting a type of popular transportation grant.
About 80percentt of the project's costs comes from federal sources, including a $142 million transportation grant specifically for the project, plus another $25.3 million in regular federal transportation funds.
They have seen dress codes enforced and ignored, discipline rules written and rewritten, bus passes for public transportation granted and taken away and given back again.
Of the $15.7 million cost, $15 million was allocated by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg from city funds, $400,000 was allocated by City Councilwoman Gale A. Brewer, who represents the Upper West Side, and $300,000 came from a federal transportation grant administered by the state.
