The funding is provided by FTA’s Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program and is designed to help communities repair damaged equipment and facilities and cover the costs of evacuation and rescue following natural disasters.
“Americans cannot stop their lives because a disaster damages their transit systems,” said FTA Administrator Nuria Fernandez, according to Homeland Security Today. “We know it is critical to fund recovery efforts for these systems, so they can keep taking Americans to work, to school, to doctors’ appointments and for all the other important journeys that transit provides.”
