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Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority received $3.36 million from the FTA for vehicle upgrades. The funding will pay for up to 42 new vehicles.
Read More →FTA received 836 project applications totaling $4 billion in requests. In FY2010 and FY2011, FTA awarded a total of more than $1.8 billion in grants for hundreds of state of good repair projects, primarily involving buses and bus facilities.
Read More →Modernized two 1920s-era subway stations. This project was one of 32 the agency embarked on with $191 million in ARRA funding. The Spring Garden-Girard station was SEPTA's largest stimulus initiative.
Read More →Part of the U.S. DOT's requirement for up to $25 million in capital funding is that it wants a list of potential operators for the system.
Read More →The federal funds are being leveraged with money from private sector partners, states, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations and transit agencies.
Read More →The projects include new track and signal systems that will ease freight, Amtrak, and Metra congestion, and support 3,300 jobs throughout the six-county Chicagoland area.
Read More →Despite missing out on the $25 million TIGER grant, the 3.3-mile streetcar line is still in the running to receive that amount from other grant programs, according to Transportation Secretary LaHood.
Read More →DOT Secretary Ray LaHood asked Mayor Dave Bing, Gov. Rick Snyder and members of the private M-1 Rail group about Detroit’s 3.3-mile, $137 million rail line project costs and who would eventually run it.
Read More →With funds from the FTA’s Bus and Bus Facilities Grant Program, the King County Department of Transportation will build two new bus rapid transit lines as part of greater Seattle’s new six corridor RapidRide BRT system.
Read More →The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project will create up to 14,500 direct and indirect jobs and generate up to $573 million in personal earnings. It is the region’s sixth MAX construction project and will expand the rail system to 60 miles.
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