AUSTIN, Texas — Austin officials were informed Wednesday that the city won’t receive the $105 million Neighborhood Access and Equity (NAE) grant for the Interstate 35 cap-and-stitch project.
According to the memo, the funding for the project was cut “as part of H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill.”
Dubbed Our Future 35, the cap-and-stitch initiative aims to bridge the I-35 divide between Lady Bird Lake and Airport Boulevard by lowering the highway’s main lanes and building “caps” and “stitches” overhead…