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8/1/2023
The Federal Transit Administration yesterday released a total of $102.3 million in funding for 17 transit agencies, cities and planning councils in eight states and territories to help them recover from recent natural disaster.
Provided through the FTA Public Transportation Emergency Relief program, the dollars will help repair damaged equipment and facilities and recoup costs for evacuation and rescue operations following floods, hurricanes and tornadoes that occurred in 2017 and 2020-22, FTA officials said in a press release.
Rail-related entities to receive the funding include:• nearly $28 million to the Bi-State Development Agency of the Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District to recover from major flooding in St. Louis in 2022;• $25 million to the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority to rehabilitate its 57th Street substation, which was damaged during Hurricane Ida in 2021; • $1.2 million to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to repair damage from storms and flooding, as well as preventing falling rock damage; and• more than $222,000 to the New Orleans Regional Transportation Authority to repair damage from Hurricanes Ida and Zeta.
Yesterday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited East St. Louis, Illinois, to tout the nearly $28 million in disaster recovery funding awarded ti the Bi-State Development Agency, which will use the money for the MetroLink rail system that serves East St. Louis and St. Louis, Missouri. The MetroLink system experienced about $45 million in damages due to flooding from storms in July 2022, the Belleville News-Democrat reported.