Trinity Metro gets nearly $6.5 million from feds to shore up bus stations and repair yard
Trinity Metro is getting $6.48 million to rehab Hershel R. Payne Transportation Complex, Texas and Pacific Station, and the Fort Worth Central Station, according to the Federal Transit Authority.
It’s part of a larger $409 million funding package to improve the nation’s bus rapid transit fleet. Trinity Metro was one of 70 projects in 39 states who received grant funding.
The funding comes from an expansion of an existing federal bus grant program made possible by the $65 billion bi-partisan infrastructure law. This is the same law that delivered $403 million for Fort Worth’s Panther Island channel.
“These grants will help people in communities large and small get to work, get to school, and access the services they need,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in an federal transit agency press release.
According to the agency, the grant funding will help Trinity Metro lower repair and energy costs and ensure more reliable frequent service for its bus rapid transit fleet.
Some of the money will go to replacing buses, which may involve either replacing or augmenting some the fleet with electric buses, wrote Trinity Metro spokesperson Laura Hanna in an email.
Most Trinity Metro buses run on compressed natural gas, but Hanna wrote that electric buses are becoming a bigger presence in public transit, and the agency is exploring adding some to the fleet.
This story was originally published March 14, 2022 at 12:09 PM.
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