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RTA urges federal government to provide more coronavirus aid for public transit Updated Dec 09, 2020; Posted Dec 09, 2020 RTA was among nine transit agencies on Wednesday urging the federal government to provide more coronavirus aid. Lisa DeJong, The Plain Dealer Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio — Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority on Wednesday was among nine transit agencies that urged the federal government to provide more emergency coronavirus aid for mass transit before the end of Congress’s lame-duck session. RTA, along with transit systems in New York, California’s San F...

WCPN Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority bus and train ridership had dropped to record-low levels in 2019. Those already low numbers were cut in half by the pandemic. Congress is considering a COVID relief bill that would include about $16 billion in aid for public transit. Agencies from around the country, including Cleveland, say they need twice that amount, at least. “That number was also a short-term and had some assumptions that with the epidemiology and the vaccines coming online and that the ridership would start to rebound a little bit and the economy would get goin...