BUSES PURCHASE PROSPECTS * USA - Recovery Act funding to replace buses
International Falls,MINN,USA -The Daily Journal -July 16, 2009: -- Residents in northeast Minnesota who depend on Arrowhead Transit to get around will soon see new buses, due to a grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act... Congressman Jim Oberstar this week announced that $7.4 million from the ARRA will be used to replace 51 buses that serve rural Minnesota communities. Arrowhead Transit’s share of that grant comes to just over $1 million, and their share will be used to purchase 15 buses to serve Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis counties...* USA - Duluth gets $1.8 million for 5 biodiesel buses
Duluth,MINN,USA -AP/KTTC -July 17, 2009: -- The city of Duluth is receiving $1.8 million in federal stimulus funds to buy five biodiesel buses... The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the award Friday... The funds were made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Since the act was signed into law in February, 384 grants totaling $3.5 billion have been made nationwide...
* USA - Columbus Municipal School District gets EPA grant for new buses
Columbus,MISS,USA -The Dispatch, by Neal Wagner -July 17, 2009: -- Newer, more fuel efficient yellow buses soon could be rolling through the streets of Columbus, officials with the Columbus Municipal School District announced Thursday... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week awarded a nearly $1.5 million grant to the CMSD to replace and upgrade the district’s school bus fleet... Although the EPA distributed nearly $156 million to schools and agencies across the nation, Columbus was the only Mississippi school system selected to receive the grant...* USA - Arizona to get $29M in transportation stimulus funding
Phoenix,AZ,USA -The Phoenix Business Journal -July 17, 2009: -- Nearly $30 million in federal stimulus money has been earmarked for road improvements in Arizona... The Arizona Department of Transportation is getting $12 million to purchase 30 replacement buses, four additional buses and two support vehicles. Funds also will be used to build new transit facilities and expand and remodel existing ones... The Northern Arizona Intergovernmental Public Transportation Authority will get $1.2 million to purchase one 35-foot hybrid electric bus and four passenger shelters for key locations along the fixed transit route in Flagstaff... (Photo from blogcdn/autobloggreen)Labels: buses purchase prospects
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