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JTA Skyway Expansion Loses: 2013 TIGER Grant Awards

September 10, 2013 45 comments  Print Article

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently announced 52 transportation projects across the country will receive a total of $474 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) 2013 discretionary grant program. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority's (JTA) application funding to extend the Skyway to Brooklyn was not among them. While it's back to the drawing board for JTA and Jacksonville, here is a look at where the award money is actually going.