The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has announced that it has awarded more than $1.9 million in Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program funding for two rail projects in Arkansas.
About $1.2 million will be used for a railroad crossing study in Jonesboro and $720,000 will be doled towards a study of the Fourche Dam Pike crossing in Little Rock.
This funding is part of a $1.1 billion total investment to improve and study more than 1,000 highway rail crossings nationwide, and it is the largest single investment in grade crossing safety in FRA’s history…