Reconnecting Communities Across America
The Reconnecting Communities Institute (RCI) is a center for learning that helps communities expand economic opportunity and mobility through transportation reconnection projects. Learn more about RCI.
Helping Communities Lead the Way
Transportation infrastructure should connect people to jobs, health care, education, and other essential services.
Through trainings and one-on-one assistance, RCI helps communities expand economic opportunity and mobility by helping them envision, plan, and implement innovative transportation reconnection projects.
A Center for Learning
RCI supports communities working to envision, plan, and implement transportation reconnection projects by helping its participants through group and peer-based learning activities, tailored one-on-one assistance, tool and resource creation, and more. Learn more about RCI.
Transportation Reconnection Project Spotlight
In the 1960s, the construction of Buffalo’s Kensington Expressway left residents in the East Side community with low access to jobs, grocery stores, and banks. In 2023, the New York Department of Transportation was awarded a $55.6 million US DOT grant for a new cap and tunnel that will connect local roads and provide a continuous link of green space for pedestrians and bicycles. It is estimated that the project will increase household wealth in the community by $76.71 million.