CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – April 9, 2024 – Today, the Iowa Transportation Commission approved $9,869,044 in total funding for ten statewide Transportation Alternatives Set-aside Program projects.

This program supports projects that will have a statewide or multi-regional impact, expand the state’s multi-modal transportation system, enhance tourism, and provides safe routes to school. The majority of Transportation Alternatives Set-aside program funding is distributed to Iowa’s metropolitan planning organizations and regional planning affiliations for the selection of local projects. The Commission awards Transportation Alternatives Set-aside projects annually. Approximately 20 percent of funding is targeted to safe routes to school projects. Funding is available to cities, counties, school districts, or other eligible organizations through an annual application-based program.

The projects and approved funding amounts are listed below.

Safe routes to school project awards:

• Iowa Safe Routes Partnership (Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments) – $258,108
• Safe Routes to School & Recreational Trails Phase I (Logan) – $652,212
• 3rd Street Sidewalk Extension Project (Anamosa) – $650,000
• Washington Avenue Safe Routes to School (Grinnell) – $581,891

All other project awards:

• Bentonsport Pedestrian Bridge Rehabilitation (Van Buren County Conservation Board) – $1,612,000
• Clear Creek Trail (Johnson County Conservation Board) – $1,800,000
• Grant Street South Realignment (Bondurant) – $500,000
• Hickman Interchange Bicycle/Pedestrian Facilities (Clive) – $800,000
• Iowa River’s Edge Trail Surfacing and South Fork Bridge Replacement (Hardin County Conservation Board) – $2,000,000
• Mississippi River Trail Eagle Ridge Road to May Street (LeClaire) – $1,014,833