WASHINGTON — The Federal Transit Administration will provide $102.3 million in funding to help transit agencies, cities, and councils recover from recent natural disasters, the agency announced Monday.
The funding, to entities in eight states and territories, comes from the FTA’s Public Transportation Emergency Relief program. It helps fund replacement of equipment and facilities damaged during natural disasters and recoup costs from evacuation and rescue operations.
Funds rewarded include more than $27 million to the Bi-State Development Agency of the Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District, operator of the Metro transit system, to recovery from major flooding in St. Louis in 2022, and $25 million to New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to rehabilitate the 57th Street substation. The full list of awards is available here.
“Americans cannot stop their lives because a disaster damages their transit systems,” FTA Administrator Nuria Fernandez said in a press release. “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.”
