The Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 provides $14 billion of COVID-19 emergency funding and annual appropriations of almost $13 billion for public transit.
A bipartisan, bicameral coronavirus relief aid package is being discussed in the lame duck session, but that can be only a starting point for negotiations.
Transit’s team also analyzes route-level and system-wide origin-destination data, to provide transit agencies with up-to-date information about rider demand in its Transit Dashboard.
Seventy-seven percent of respondents want to see more funding. Additionally, by a three-to-one margin, voters want to see action taken to fix public transit infrastructure.
The agency earned APTA's award in the midsize category, with an annual ridership between four million and 20 million.
The agency was named APTA’s Outstanding Public Transportation System for the first time in its 35-year history.
The agency has won APTA's award for agencies providing 20 million or more passenger trips annually twice in the last five years.
Says it will continue to work with Congress during Lame Duck session to secure additional emergency funding for public transit.
The association honored 13 individuals and organizations with awards for their leadership, vision, and lifetime commitment to public transportation and inducted four new members into the APTA Hall of Fame.
Williams, who delivered comments on behalf of COMTO, discussed the difficulty for DBEs to compete and attain contracts as a DBE and that if it wasn’t for the federal and local equity programs, DBEs would not be able to compete or obtain contracts.