DOT Opens $102M in Disaster Funding for Transit Recovery
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced this month that it has made available $102.3 million in disaster relief funding to help eight jurisdictions in their recovery from recent natural disasters.
The funding is provided by FTA’s Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program and is designed to help communities repair damaged equipment and facilities and cover the costs of evacuation and rescue following natural disasters.
“Americans cannot stop their lives because a disaster damages their transit systems,” said FTA Administrator Nuria Fernandez, according to Homeland Security Today. “We know it is critical to fund recovery efforts for these systems, so they can keep taking Americans to work, to school, to doctors’ appointments and for all the other important journeys that transit provides.”
The funding will go to recovery efforts in Los Angeles, New York, Florida, Kentucky, New Orleans, Missouri, Puerto Rico and Texas.
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