Showing posts with label Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program. Show all posts

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse: The politics of roads

  It seemed to go under the radar last year, but the Bentley administration quietly inaugurated the largest road-building program seen in the state in over six decades.

  Gov. Bentley launched the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program (ATRIP). The ATRIP program, coupled with another road program, the Rural Assistance Match Program, will bring the total for road and bridge construction in Bentley’s first term to well over $1 billion.