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RAISE Grant New Links Capital Infrastructure Project
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DESCRIPTION: Grant Application for federal funds to replace fare technology medium and to create or enhance newly identified regional and neighborhood transfer hubs with operator comfort stations
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Authorize the Chief Executive Officer to seek federal funds in the amount of $24,225,600 to replace the fare technology medium and to create or enhance newly identified regional and neighborhood transfer hubs with operator comfort stations. The local match is $6,056,400 and the total project amount will be $30,282 000.00.
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The Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 (Pub. L. 116-260, December 27,2020) (FY"2021 Appropriations Act") appropriated $1 billion to be awarded by the Department of Transportation (DOT) for National Infrastructure Investment (now known as Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grants.) RAISE Grants are for capital investments in surface transportation that will have a significant local or regional impact.
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DISCUSSION:
The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) is requesting $24,226 million in federal funding to implement the recommendations from New Links, a Comprehensive Operations Analysis (COA) that included a full bus network redesign. The proposal for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant program will provide funding to allow the agency to replace the fare technology medium and to create or enhance newly identified regional and neighborhood transfer hubs with operator comfort stations.
New Links was a project led by the region's MPO, the New Orleans Regional Planning Commission (RPC), to reimagine how public transit connects Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard par...
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