Reconnecting Communities Across America
The Reconnecting Communities Institute (RCI) is a technical assistance center that helps communities expand economic opportunity and mobility through transportation reconnection projects. Learn more about RCI.
Helping Communities Lead the Way
RCI provides project readiness and development support to communities scoping, planning, and implementing transportation reconnection projects. We encourage innovative best practices in reconnection project scoping, planning, financing, delivery, and monitoring.
Through tailored one-on-one assistance, group and peer-based learning, and on-demand tools and resources, RCI helps communities address transportation barriers and improve outcomes across mobility, economic opportunity, health, safety, and community-driven decision making.
What is a Reconnection Project?
Reconnection projects are transportation planning or capital construction projects that address mobility barriers caused by transportation infrastructure.
Examples of barriers include high-speed roads, viaducts, transit and rail lines, and other transportation infrastructure that create safety and mobility challenges. Reconnection projects address these barriers to help people safely move within communities and connect with jobs, recreation, education, and other opportunities. Learn more about RCI.
Transportation Reconnection Project Spotlight:
I-579 Cap Urban Connector Project
The I-579 Cap Project reconnects Pittsburgh’s historic Hill District with downtown, restoring a vital link that was lost in the 1950s. What was once a mobility barrier created by Interstate 579 is now Frankie Pace Park—a vibrant, three-acre public space providing direct connections between the Hill District and the business and cultural center of the city’s downtown.