U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Tuesday signed $58.8 million in federal grants to to improve local bus travel across the Washington area.
The Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery grants will benefit the metropolitan region with funding toward transportation projects that will boost the economy and increase safety of the current infrastructure.
Of the stimulus funding, $26 million will go to improving bus transportation along priority corridors in Maryland, Virginia and D.C, with $19.9 million allocated to improving bus transit connections between Prince William and Fairfax counties as well as Alexandria and the District. More than $12.3 million will fund the construction of a transit center in Prince George’s County.
LaHood called the grants “an excellent example of the Obama administration’s commitment to modernizing transit systems and creating economic opportunity.”
