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Despite strong support, the plan ignores certain economic, equity concerns

A groundbreaking ceremony was held today to mark the start of the Milwaukee County bus rapid-transit project, a nine-mile route that will connect major employment centers in Wauwatosa and downtown Milwaukee.

A push to make funding mid-sized BRT projects easier, and more in this week’s Mobile City.

MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: April 5, 2021 188 The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration on Monday announced that Community Transit’s Swift Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project — with 13 stations planned between Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood and the McCollum Park and Ride in Mill Creek — has been awarded $37 million in federal funding. The Swift Orange Line is an 11.3-mile BRT corridor that will connect with two other Swift BRT lines, as well as Sound Transit’s Lynnwood Link Extension light rail project. Swift Orange Line is schedul...

Milwaukee County BRT project receives federal grant money, construction slated for spring Could be open to riders by fall 2022 Share Last updated on December 15th, 2020 at 12:56 pm Milwaukee County officials say they have formally received a $40.9 million federal grant that will allow construction to start this spring on the roughly $55 million bus rapid-transit project. The nine-mile east-west BRT project is the first of its kind in the state, according to a news release. It will connect downtown Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center in Wauwatosa by a new bus service that is fa...