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Public transit gets $3.7B to woo riders, adopt green fleets

By HOPE YEN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — As
cities seek to fully reopen,
public transit systems strain-
ing to win back riders af-
ter being crushed by the
COVID-19 pandemic are
getting a big funding boost
to stay afloat and invest in
new fleets of electric buses.
The Biden administration
said Monday it was award-
ing $2.2 billion in corona-
virus relief money from the
American Rescue Plan
to 35 financially strapped GOING
transit agencies in 18 states.
The money would be used
to prop up day-to-day op-
erations, including staff-
ing and payroll as well as GREEN
cleaning and sanitization
to limit the spread of illness
in public transportation. A
federal mask mandate for
public transit remains in ef-
fect until at least March 18. Vice President Kamala Harris with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, left, and Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency Michael Regan, right, announces major federal actions that will expand clean public transit and school buses, reduce
Continued on next page emissions from diesel trucks, and create good-paying jobs, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House com-
plex, in Washington, Monday, March 7, 2022.
Associated Press