TRANSPORTATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES!

Due in Summer and Fall. Draft: August 14, 2024. Final: October 1, 2024

Usually on FDOT rights-of-way (ROW) (or county roads contiguous to and visible from the state ROW). Purchase and installation of plant materials, soil amendments, and irrigation systems; site preparation. (Sign installation and hardscape elements are not eligible but can be used as match). Think of areas where you would like to have people walking and bicycling. Having beautiful plants is an important element for active transportation. Also, beautification is helpful for economic development.

Due in Spring and Summer. (Implementation: May 16, 2024. First round Planning & Demonstration: awards announced May 17, 2024). Planning & Demonstration: August 29, 2024.

Roadway safety planning. Develop, complete, or supplement a comprehensive safety action plan to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries in an area. Demonstration activities. Planning activities. Implement projects and strategies identified in Action Plan that could be infrastructural, behavioral, and/or operational.

Grant Application Workshop: fall. Open: fall. Checkpoint: fall. Close: winter.

Low stress, ages 8 to 80 active transportation facilities (sidewalks, separated bike lanes, shared use path, protected intersections, roadway markings, school-related signals, beacons or signs, etc.). Can also do projects around education, encouragement, enforcement, evaluation. STEP (Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian) infrastructure to consider; lane repurposing (road diets), PHBs (pedestrian hybrid beacons), pedestrian refuge islands, raised crosswalks, crosswalk visibility enhancements (signs, lighting, marking the crosswalk, etc.), RRFBs (rectangular rapid flashing beacons), LPIs (leading pedestrian intervals). Watching the webinar is a requirement of applying.
https://floridaltap.org/recorded-webinar-srts-application-workshop/.

Please contact Gretchen Peoples of FDOT District 3 for more information.

FDOT District 3 Local Programs Community Workshop: fall. Open: fall. Close: winter.

Smaller-scale transportation projects and activities that expand and integrate accessible non-motorized travel choices and make them safer, including on- and off-road bicycle and pedestrian facilities, recreational trails, safe routes for non-drivers, safe routes to schools, and accessibility improvements to help achieve compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Strengthening our economy by enhancing traveling experiences throughout communities, TA also funds cultural, historical, and environmental aspects of transportation infrastructure including construction of turnouts, overlooks and viewing areas; historic preservation and rehabilitation of historic transportation facilities; vegetation management in transportation rights-of-way; archaeological activities related to impacts from transportation projects; and environmental mitigation related to stormwater and habitat connectivity. Please contact Tanya Branton of FDOT District 3 for more information.

Open: fall. Close: winter.

The development of a statewide system of interconnected high-priority, paved, non-motorized multi-use trail / two-directional Shared Use Path (SUP) within the SUN Trail network for bicyclists and pedestrians, physically separated from vehicular traffic.

Eligible project phases include preliminary planning/feasibility studies, project development and environment planning, preliminary engineering/design, acquisition of right-of-way, new construction, reconstruction or resurfacing trail surfaces or bridges and maintenance (e.g., minor or major repairs, obligations for pavement, drainage, land stabilization and safety controls), and construction engineering inspections. Please contact Tanya Branton of FDOT District 3 for more information.

FDOT District 3 Local Programs Community Workshop: fall. Open: fall Close: spring.

Assist small county governments in repairing or rehabilitating county bridges, paving unpaved roads, addressing road-related drainage improvements, resurfacing or reconstructing county roads, or constructing capacity or safety improvements to county roads. Please contact Maria Showalter of FDOT District 3 for more information.

APALACHEE REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL

Local Partnerships. Regional Impact.