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USDOT to invest approximately $16.2M in transit improvement grants for 40 poverty-stricken areas

Transit initiatives in 32 states and two territories affected by persistent poverty will soon get a boost from the U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA), which announced last week $16.2 million in competitive grants for this purpose.

In all, 40 projects that met the demands of FTA’s Areas of Persistent Poverty (AoPP) program will benefit, including state and local governments, transit agencies and nonprofit organizations. The projects work to create better transit for residents with traditionally little or no transportation options. An extension of the Biden administration’s Justice40 initiative, racial equity and public health efforts, these grants were awarded for planning, engineering, technical studies and financial plans to improve transit in low-income areas, as defined by the recent Census.

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