Massive Grants to Eliminate Dangerous Railroad Crossings Across the US

The Biden administration is providing $570 million in grants to eliminate railroad crossings in 32 states, contributing to building bridges or underpasses at the sites of more than three dozen crossings that delay traffic and sometimes keep first responders from where help is desperately needed. The grants are part of $3 billion in funding approved in the $1 trillion infrastructure law for these rail crossing projects that will be doled out over the next five years. States and cities, sometimes with the help of the railroads, must cover at least 20% of the project cost.