WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to apply for $8.5 million in Fiscal Year 2020 competitive grant funding for projects that hel...
https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2020/03/03-us-dot-puts-up-$85-million-to-help-improve-transit-service-in-economically-distressed-areas
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
$8.5 million ? That is not even chump change. Studies will eat up all that amount!
Sure enough, consultants, research consortia, and institutions of higher education are listed as eligible recipients.
The areas of need for this particular program were interesting to me:
https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/docs/funding/applying/notices-funding/147836/hope-continental-us.pdf
These appear to be chronically-poor areas with little or no existing 'public' transit resources (or organizations providing things like paratransit for medical purposes or the mobility-impaired).
There's a matching-grant requirement, but it is 'not more than 10%' so, presumably, good projects might well be 100% funded in some of these areas.
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