The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will be hosting a Michigan vendor showcase and transit summit in July to showcase Michigan vendors and determine the best use of the Phase 2 funds.
The recommended projects in Phase 1 include replacing rural transit buses that are past their useful life and constructing new administrative, bus storage, and maintenance
facilities for rural transit systems. The rural transit agencies in Michigan also will receive $68 million of Fiscal Year 2009 state and federal funds to support operating and capital needs of the transit agencies.
Rural intercity bus services also are slated for improvements. The MDOT uses state and federal funds to contract with carriers to provide service that would otherwise not exist, in particular, in the Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan. Recovery Act funding will be used to improve services for intercity passengers and help reduce costs for the carriers through the purchase of motor coaches to replace those that have met their useful life and improvements to passenger terminals.
Transit agencies in urban areas of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Battle Creek, Bay City, Benton Harbor, Holland, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Monroe, Muskegon, Port Huron, Saginaw and Livingston County) will receive approximately $108 million and also will be submitting applications to the Federal Transit Administration.
Attached is the Phase 1 list of projects that will be submitted to the Federal Transit Administration for approval and their estimated cost.
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