Community Projects
Fiscal Year 2023
Future I-57
- Recipient: Arkansas Department of Transportation
- Location: 10324 I-30, Little Rock AR, 72209
- Amount of Request: $7,000,000
- Details: The Future I-57 Project from Walnut Ridge to the Missouri State Line will complete a continuous freeway facility, linking Little Rock, Arkansas to St. Louis, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois. The benefits of this project include increased mobility and safety, enhanced economic competitiveness regionally, and an accelerated interstate commerce. The addition of a four-lane highway with full interstate designation would attract business to Northeast Arkansas as well as provide critical economic access for the region.
U.S. Highway 412 Corridor Improvements
- Recipient: Arkansas Department of Transportation
- Location: 10324 I-30, Little Rock AR, 72209
- Amount of Request: $10,000,000
- Details: This project will provide improvements on the U.S. Highway 412 Corridor in Boone, Lawrence, and Washington counties. It will consist of various interchange and intersection improvements, passing lanes, and major widening on various sections of Highway 412. This is a nationally significant East-West corridor that begins in northeastern New Mexico and continues 1,130 miles eastward to Columbia, Tennessee. The 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) designated the Highway 412 Corridor between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Nashville, Tennessee as high Priority Corridor 8. In Arkansas, the U.S. Highway 412 Corridor traverses 12 counties and is of vital importance to the economy of Northern Arkansas.