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While most of the backlog can be attributed to rail, more than 40 percent of the nation's buses are also in poor to marginal condition.
Read More →PennDOT received $5 million to update systems to improve efficiency, mainly of paratransit services. SEPTA received $4 million to renovate intermodal facility.
Read More →Work includes rehabilitating track components, replacing rail car components and AVL equipment installed on buses prior to 2002.
Read More →Gov. Lingle has said she wants to hold public hearings on the EIS and do an analysis on cost-and-revenue estimates before signing it.
Read More →Amendment placed by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) in last year's DOT appropriations bill prohibited the FTA from enforcing the Charter Bus Rule against King County Metro Transit.
Read More →The project, which promises to create between 20 and 30 construction jobs, is being financed with federal stimulus funds through the Federal Transit Administration.
Read More →Will be used to buy transit vehicles, perform preventive maintenance on vehicles at transit agencies around the state and for the construction of a new transit facility in the city of Spearfish.
Read More →Yolo County Transportation District project, estimated at $5.9 million, is expected to be complete in 2011.
Read More →The first part of the Green Line, from Pearl Station to MLK Jr., along with daily service to Victory Station, opened in September 2009. Work began on the Green Line in fall 2006, following the receipt of a $700 million Full Funding Grant Agreement from the Federal Transit Administration.
Read More →The CTA is using capital funding from the Federal Transit Administration and Illinois Department of Transportation in addition to revenue bonds to purchase the rail cars. The total cost for the 406 rail cars is $603.6 million.
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