Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program - newly funded federal program to support bicycle, pedestrian, and trails projects - available later in 2023 | Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

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This new program was authorized in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law at $200 million annually and subject to appropriations. The program establishes competitive connectivity grants that strategically invest in projects that connect active transportation networks, accelerating local and regional plans to create safe and convenient routes to everyday destinations.

Advancing the Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program

RTC continues to advocate for funding for the Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP), a program that was authorized, but not funded, in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in 2021. While we continue to fight for funding for the program in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill currently under negotiation in Congress, making a case for the program to the key decisionmakers holding the pen on that bill, we are also looking to Fiscal Year 2024. The Department of Transportation is putting together its budget request for FY 2024 in advance of President Biden releasing his proposed budget, and RTC has put together a sign-on letter with the support of at least 24 organizations to the administration requesting this funding.

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Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program - newly funded federal program to support bicycle, pedestrian, and trails projects - available later in 2023 | Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

MoBikeFed comment: The Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program was funded as part of the federal budget bill passed in December 2022. Unfortunately, not at the requested $500 million, but at $50 million.

This program has some real potential to fund bike, ped, and trails projects that make key connections. Look for the federal guidance and applications for this funding to be announced later in 2023.