InvestigationAugust 27, 2026
Bridgeport's Barnum Station: $10M TIGER grant rescinded after costs hit $300M
A new Metro-North station was budgeted at $48 million in 2014. By the time Connecticut deferred the project, the price tag had grown to $300 million — and the federal government had already taken its grant back.
Source award
Connecticut DOT — $10,000,000 from TIGER, FY2015.
Sources (2)
- https://railroads.dot.gov/elibrary/us-department-transportation-announces-10-million-tiger-grant-barnum-station-project
“$10 million... TIGER 2015 program... construction of a new commuter rail station, which will serve the Metro North Railroad on the east side of Bridgeport, Connecticut”
- https://portal.ct.gov/ceq/dot/eie-notice/cancellation-of-barnum-station-project
“first proposed in 2014 with a $48 million budget, but is now carrying an anticipated price tag of $300 million... the federal TIGER grant was rescinded at the end of 2016 because the state was unable to fund design and construction”
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