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Railroad industry news about: Federal Transit Administration, federal funding, Areas of Persistent Poverty program, improving transit access, Chicago Transit Authority, Cincinnati Connector Streetcar. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine
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.
Ozark Regional Transit and Razorback Transit have received a $180,000 federal grant for bus stop improvements through their Areas of Persistent Poverty grant application, it was announced Thursday.
The program funds planning, engineering and development of projects to improve transit services in historically disadvantaged communities.
Augusta is one of 47 communities to win an Area of Persistent Poverty grant from the Federal Transit Authority to conduct an expansion study.