Des Moines considers $8 million in federal funds for transportation projects
The Des Moines City Council will consider tonight whether to seek $8.3 million in federal funding for $63 million in street, bridge and trail projects.
Those projects include the Southeast Connector project that extends Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway from Southeast 30th Street to the U.S. Highway 65 bypass at Vandalia Road and the reconstruction of the Court Avenue bridge over the Des Moines River downtown, according to a report to the council.
If approved, the city would ask the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to submit a funding request for fiscal year 2020.
The Southeast Connector carries and estimated cost of $50 million, of which Des Moines would seek $5 million in federal surface transportation funds. Reconstruction of the Court Avenue bridge is expected to cost $7.6 million, and the city could request $2 million.
Other projects are the repair and resurfacing of University Avenue between 48th and 55th streets, continued funding of the Sixth Avenue streetscape project and the extension of the Des Moines River Trail to Easter Lake Park from the Cownie Baseball Complex.
Des Moines is seeking $500,000 for the $850,000 University Avenue project, $300,000 for the $2.4 million second phase of the Sixth Avenue streetscape project and $500,000 for the $2.4 million Des Moines River Trail project.
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