USDOT Opens $1B in Safe Streets Grants for 2026 Infrastructure Work

The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced $1 billion in grant funding under the Safe Streets for All program for 2026, targeting safety-focused infrastructure projects across the country. Equipment World covers the funding announcement, scope eligibility, and the kinds of local and regional projects the grants are intended to support. The article is primarily aimed at contractors and municipalities working in roadbuilding and civil infrastructure.

A billion dollars in federal safety grants sounds like a windfall, but most of it lands in small municipal buckets before a GC ever sees a bid invitation. The projects that do go to bid, intersection redesigns, crosswalk upgrades, signal systems, tend to be design-build or CM-at-risk structures where preconstruction relationships matter more than low price. GCs who track public agency work know the real window is six to twelve months before the formal solicitation, when scope is still being defined. Firms without existing relationships in those agencies will be bidding blind against someone who helped write the program. That’s not a fair fight, and the firms that win Safe Streets money know it.

Read the full story at Equipment World.