PURCHASE PROSPECTS * USA - STIMULUS PLANS
* TARC to get more hybrid buses - Federal stimulus funds to pay for hybrid buses
Louisville,KY,USA -The Louisville Courier-Journal -March 12, 2009: -- TARC is getting a $17.7 million boost from the massive federal stimulus package to help it go green -- creating hundreds of jobs in the process... The money will buy the Transit Authority of River City 10 hybrid buses and build a maintenance annex behind Union Station featuring solar heat, recycled water and roof vegetation... Louisville expects to get at least $200 million under the stimulus program in the coming months for housing, roads, bridges, schools and sewer, water and other projects...* Grant will help transit groups link Tennessee cities, rural areas
Nashville,TN,USA -The Tennessean, by Clay Carey -March 12, 2009: -- More than $3.6 million in federal money has been awarded to state transit groups to lay the groundwork for a public transportation network that would connect residents in rural parts of the state to Tennessee's bigger cities... In all, the state said in a news release, the grant money will help connect more than 40 rural towns and counties to larger cities... The state-administered money will go to seven community groups and private companies. According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, it can be used to buy buses and vans, as well as wheelchair lifts, computers and other equipment used to get transit systems off the ground... (Photo by SHELLEY MAYS / THE TENNESSEAN - Passengers exit the Music City Star train and line up to ride a Metro bus into downtown at Riverfront Station in Nashville)
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