The funding comes on the heels of additional grants awarded to Metro earlier this year to diversify its energy usage by replacing aging transit vehicles and infrastructure and purchasing buses powered on biofuel.
The approved 2023 budget contains several fare policy changes that make it less expensive to ride Pace and more seamless to transfer to and from CTA and Metra services.
The Burbank Junction Speed Improvement Project ill realign a portion of existing main line track, reconfigure and lengthen track, improve and replace approximately one-half mile of existing track, and install new right of way safety fencing.
The most recent results add to a string of historic years for transit at the ballot box, with over 85% of measures winning for public transit from 2017 to 2022.
As previously announced, the property is located near the company's Aldergrove, B.C., Canadian Headquarters with easy access to port, rail, and truck shipping and receiving facilities.
The consultant, in joint venture with AECOM, is performing preliminary engineering and design services, including reporting, quality assurance, environmental permitting, risk management and resilience planning, and design.
RFTA Tickets is a mobile fare payment system powered by Masabi’s Justride platform that will increase access to RFTA services.
Wegener previously worked at LAVTA from 2014 through 2018 as the director of planning and operations.