Cleveland RTA to receive $585K from federal transit grant
“The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority has been selected to receive a $585,000 grant to partner with local agencies and nonprofits to address barriers to transit access facing people living in areas of persistent poverty.
These grants, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration, are awarded on a competitive basis to help marginalized communities across the country, according to a release from FTA.
Through FTA’s Areas of Persistent Poverty program, grants are awarded for planning, engineering and technical studies, or financial plans to improve transit in low income areas.
AoPP has provided over $16 million to fund 40 projects nationwide.”