The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) announced\nthe award of 11 Airport Improvement Program grants totaling more than $8.5\nmillion in state funds to support airport safety and improvement projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGeneral aviation airports not only provide transportation\nfor residents, businesses, and visitors, but also serve as key economic engines\nfor local communities,\u201d NJDOT Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti said.\n\u201cThese grants will improve our public-use airports, so all facets of New\nJersey\u2019s multi-modal transportation system are modern and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grants are awarded through a competitive process. Projects\nreceiving funds this year include runway rehabilitation, taxiway construction,\nlighting improvements, obstruction removal, and safety improvements at 11\nairports in 8 counties throughout the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The grants will be funded solely through NJDOT\u2019s Transportation Trust Fund and Airport Safety Fund, with the state providing 90 percent of the eligible cost and the remaining 10 percent covered by the airport owner. By leveraging $8.5 million in state funding, along with the $900,000 in airport contributions, more than $9.4 million worth of work will be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Airports receiving grants are, Essex County, Solberg, Trenton\nMercer, Trenton Robbinsville, Morristown, Eagles Nest, Greenwood Lake, Spitfire,\nSomerset, Central Jersey Regional, and Princeton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) announced the award of 11 Airport Improvement Program grants totaling more than $8.5 million in state funds to support airport safety and improvement projects. \u201cGeneral aviation airports not only provide transportation for residents, businesses, and visitors, but also serve as key economic engines for local communities,\u201d NJDOT Commissioner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21049,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions\/21049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}