{"id":371260,"date":"2022-06-27T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=371260"},"modified":"2022-06-27T06:06:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T20:06:23","slug":"us-house-subcommittee-allots-18-4m-for-seven-nmi-transportation-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/us-house-subcommittee-allots-18-4m-for-seven-nmi-transportation-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"US House subcommittee allots $18.4M  for seven NMI transportation projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_371261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371261\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gregorio-Kilili-Sablan-PW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-371261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gregorio-Kilili-Sablan-PW-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-371261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development included seven transportation projects totaling $18.4 million for the Marianas that Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) requested in its fiscal year 2023 spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said in his e-kilili newsletter over the weekend that the subcommittee approved Thursday a spending legislation that includes $10 million for the Department of Public Works for four road projects and $8.4 million for the Commonwealth Office of Transit Authority for three transit projects.<\/p>\n<p>He said the four DPW road projects are $2 million for the Rota Route 10 Drainage Improvements and Road Overlay, $2 million for the Tinian Route 205 Road and Drainage Improvements, $2 million for the Saipan Route 302 Improvements, and $4 million for the Saipan Route 36 Phase 1 Construction.<\/p>\n<p>The three OTA projects are $4.5 million for 187 bus stop shelters along the Saipan Public Transit Fixed Route, $3 million for a covered bus parking facility, and $900,000 for bus transfer stations at Northern Marianas College, Paseo de Marianas in Garapan and Kagman.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said the spending bill now goes to the full Appropriations Committee for approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development included seven&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":371262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-371260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}