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Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Department of Transportation Montgomery County’s Ride On transit service and the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority have been allocated more than $1 million in federal funding to make public transportation safer amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Ride On will receive $450,000 so it can track passenger counts in real-time to inform patrons about buses’ available capacities, members of Maryland’s congressional delegation announced in a statement Tuesday. Th...

$30.5 billion in Federal Funding for nation’s transit systems announced today. U.S. Department of Transportation The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced that 37 projects will receive a share of $15.8 million in funding to support strategies that develop, deploy and demonstrate solutions that improve the operational efficiency of transit agencies and enhance rider mobility during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emerge...