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NCTCOG: Alliance Texas Inland Port wins $80M INFRA grant; city officials say local traffic impacts must be studied
Summary
Jeff Neal, senior projects manager with the North Central Texas Council of Governments, told the Haslet City Council that the Alliance Texas Inland Port project won an $80 million federal INFRA grant toward a roughly $262 million package of regional transportation and logistics investments.
Jeff Neal, senior projects manager for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, told the Haslet City Council on Sept. 17 that a project at the Alliance Texas inland port won an $80,000,000 U.S. Department of Transportation INFRA grant and that the award will help fund a roughly $262,000,000 package of roadway and technology improvements.
The project as described to the council includes widening Intermodal Parkway to three lanes in each direction, technology and logistics enhancements aimed at freight operations, and a new connection from State Highway 170 (often called the Direct Connector or Spur 170) that would land in the Intermodal Parkway median and become the third lane in each direction. “The $80,000,000 awarded with the INFRA grant…this project was the only project in Texas to receive that award,” Neal said.
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