Fostering livable communities through place-based policies and investments that increase transportation choices access to transportation services for

Steve Chabot, whore to the oil industry, condemned the USDOT decision to award $10.9 million to the Cincinnati Streetcar project saying it would be better spent on maintaining the status quo replacing a highway bridge.
The Tiger III criteria can be found here. Notably in the criteria:

"While the TIGER Discretionary Grant program is not a Recovery Act program, job creation and near-term economic activity remain a top priority of this Administration; therefore, DOT will give priority (as it did for the TIGER and TIGER I1 Discretionary Grant programs) to projects that are expected to quickly create and preserve jobs and promote rapid increases in economic activity, particularly jobs and activity that benefit economically distressed areas as defined by section 301 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended."

Currently the bridge replacement is years off while the streetcar project is almost ready to start on (unless obstructionist ideologue auto cultists manage to delay it).
Other points Steve Chabot ignores:
Improving energy efficiency, reducing dependence on oil, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and benefiting the environment.
Fostering livable communities through place-based policies and investments that increase transportation choices access to transportation services for people in communities across the United States.

KYPost article(because KY really cares about ComboverBoy) here