VTrans receives over $19 million in federal funds for Route 7 reconstruction
The Vermont Agency of Transportation received $19.7 million in federal funding to help complete the reconstruction of Route 7 from Pittsford to Brandon, one of the state’s — and New England’s — busiest highways, the Vermont Congressional Delegation announced Monday.
“We’re seeing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law at work here in Rutland County,” Sen. Peter Welch wrote in a statement to VTDigger. “I was proud to support the bill and to help secure this funding.”
The funding was awarded through the federal Department of Transportation’s Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development grant program, or BUILD, under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Acting as a principal high-capacity urban roadway on the National Highway System, the 12-mile north-south corridor on the western side of Vermont is largely used for shipping goods and services.
According to the agency, the project, a portion of a larger reconstruction of that stretch of Route 7, was estimated to cost $22.3 million and wa…