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The National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute has awarded the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the UAB Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center $9.6 million over five years t
Six local trails for walking and biking across Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland and in Washington, DC, will see improvements over the next few years through the rehabilitation of some of the region’s oldest trails and the construction of new trail segments.
A study of Dubuque’s public transportation system could lead to altered local bus routes and service times.
The Federal Transit Administration’s Areas of Persistent Poverty program awarded the RTC $630,000 to assist in developing a plan to improve mobility in a 32-square-mile area that includes downtown Las Vegas, the Historic Westside, east Las Vegas and North Las Vegas.
These are competitive grants for planning, engineering, or developing transit service improvements in historically disadvantaged communities.