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The Kansas City TIGER project is drawing urban and suburban, bi-state and bi-partisan support. The grant is bringing together a coalition of groups that historically would have planned their own transportation or development projects independently, but now have a unique opportunity to take a regional approach to planning. By encouraging more regional coordination, groups now have the opportunity to leverage their particular assets to support more regional goals, like higher levels of infill and maximizing the use of preexisting infrastructure.

Kansas City is focused on improving transportation corridors so people are better connected to where they live, work, and want to go and getting there without an automobile is a viable option. On a regional scale, the goal is to use the TIGER grant to improve transportation corridors by providing new bus routes both in the urban core and in places that haven’t been served by public transportation before. That means, locally, that the TIGER grant is being used to improve access to transportation routes by upgrading infrastructure for pedestrians and bicyclists.

The success of the TIGER project in Kansas City will depend on broad support from leaders across both states, and on support from the public. That is why the project is using innovative outreach methods to show the public exactly what they will accomplish in their neighborhoods. To ensure that residents in the area get to see the progress of more than 100 projects that are receiving funds, the Kansas City TIGER project is releasing a series of videos to explain their goals and featuring a “TIGER Tracker” on their website.

For more information about Kansas City’s regional TIGER grant, check out their website.