{"id":111927,"date":"2022-04-25T23:17:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T03:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=111927"},"modified":"2022-04-25T23:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T03:17:34","slug":"mcneill-lauds-2-76-million-in-grant-awards-for-lvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=111927","title":{"rendered":"McNeill lauds $2.76 million in grant awards for LVIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, April 25 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>State Rep. Jeanne McNeill said she is pleased to see the announcements that the Lehigh Valley International Airport will receive $2.76 million in grant funding from PennDOT and\u00a0the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe airport is a bustling economic engine for the Lehigh Valley and this funding will help it to do even more to help residents, businesses and those who travel to our area,\u201d said McNeill, D-Lehigh.<\/p>\n<p>LVIA will use the $1.76 million grant from the state Transportation Department to continue its terminal connector and security checkpoint expansion and to enhance terminal commercial development connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is one of 12 projects at 10 airports that were awarded a total of $10 million today through the Aviation Transportation Assistance Program administered by PennDOT.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the administration last week announced a $1 million RACP grant to continue work on the airport&#8217;s checkpoint project. In late 2021, the airport received $2 million from RACP for a new four-lane security screening checkpoint with an elevated terminal connector. The work includes an addition to the terminal complex enabling a federally compliant four-lane passenger security screening area; four new elevators and four new escalators to meet ADA standards; reduced walking distances and decreased ADA vertical transitions; state-of-the-art air purification and anti-microbial finishes; and optimized lighting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nShannon Keith<br \/>\nHouse Democratic Communications Office<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, April 25 \u2013\u00a0State Rep. Jeanne McNeill said she is pleased to see the announcements that the Lehigh Valley International Airport will receive $2.76 million in grant funding from PennDOT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=111927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McNeill lauds $2.76 million in grant awards for LVIA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rep-Jeanne-McNeill.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}