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Newsby StaffSeptember 10, 2009

NYSDOT receives ARRA funds for rural transit

The $20 million in funding will enable small cities and rural counties to purchase 149 buses, upgrade maintenance facilities, build bus shelters and install signage.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 8, 2009

Champaign-Urbana MTD receives ARRA funds for simulators

Simulators, programmed to emulate this environment, will allow the MTD to introduce bus operators to this environment in the controlled setting of the simulator room. Agency hopes to begin using system by mid-2010.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 2, 2009

L.B. Foster to supply rail to SEPTA

Delivering new rail, trackwork turnouts, contact rail, coverboards, insulator assemblies and bonded insulated joints. The Fern Rock Yard Track Renewal Project is completely funded by The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 1, 2009

RTC breaks ground on $17M transit center

The Bonneville Transit Center will serve as the central transit hub for the RTC’s ACE Rapid Transit system, ACExpress commuter services and the RTC’s fixed-route transit system.

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Newsby StaffAugust 28, 2009

Miami-Dade receives FTA stimulus funding

Of the total $64.5 million, $9.7 million will be allocated to 24 Miami-Dade municipalities for transit related projects within their respective municipal boundaries.

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Newsby StaffAugust 27, 2009

Caltrans seeks ARRA funds for HSR projects

The statewide application included a $340 million request to advance 18 intercity rail projects in Southern California that would connect to high-speed rail, including six projects in Orange County totaling $152 million.

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Newsby StaffAugust 24, 2009

LaHood: $1.3B in ARRA funds awarded

Since President Obama signed ARRA into law on Feb. 17, 2009, grants totaling more than $5.7 billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the nation.

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Newsby StaffAugust 18, 2009

Wabtec unit wins $44M Virginia rail contract

In addition to the 12 MPXpress commuter locomotives it has ordered, Virginia Railway Express has an option to acquire an additional eight locomotives, which would bring the total value of the order to more than $73 million.

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Newsby StaffAugust 17, 2009

NJ Transit receives $298.7M in ARRA funds

In addition to the Mass Transit Tunnel Project, money will also pay for bus, van and railcar purchases, as well as facility, track, and safety and bridge improvements throughout the system.

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Newsby StaffAugust 13, 2009

ARRA to fund two SEPTA station renovations

The $25 million project represents the first modernization for the Girard and Spring Garden stations since original construction in the late 1920s. Improvements include new elevators, stairs, lighting, signage and fire alarm systems.

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