{"id":30523,"date":"2025-05-21T04:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/us-dot-opens-1-5b-funding-round-for-transit-buses-and-bus-facilities\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T04:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:50:17","slug":"us-dot-opens-1-5b-funding-round-for-transit-buses-and-bus-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/us-dot-opens-1-5b-funding-round-for-transit-buses-and-bus-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"US DOT opens $1.5B funding round for transit buses and bus facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech\">\n    <button class=\"text-to-speech__button button\"><\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-to-speech__button__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/static\/images\/audio_icon.svg?482016190122\" alt=\"-\"><\/p>\n<p>        Listen to the article<br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">3 min<\/span><br \/>\n    <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech__controls\">\n        <audio controls=\"\" class=\"js-text-to-speech\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dmgi9movl\/video\/upload\/q_1\/v1747761623\/news\/text_to_speech\/dot-funding-transit-buses-facilities_criwtb.wav\" type=\"audio\/mp3\"><\/source><\/audio><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech__controls__text\">\n            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">feedback<\/a>.\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"standard-heading\">Dive Brief:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. Department of Transportation announced yesterday that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/briefing-room\/us-department-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-announces-federal-funding-get\" target=\"_blank\">$1.5 billion in grants<\/a> will be available through the Federal Transit Administration\u2019s Buses and Bus Facilities and Low or No Emission bus competitive grant programs.<\/li>\n<li>The fiscal year 2025 grants focus on strengthening domestic bus manufacturing, according to the DOT\u2019s press release.<\/li>\n<li>The funding opportunity does not include language related to climate change, sustainability, environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion. &#8220;American commuters don\u2019t want to pay for deranged, leftist DEI mandates that don\u2019t improve the efficiency of their daily commutes,\u201d Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dive Insight:<\/h3>\n<p>The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act authorized $5.6 billion in funding over five years for the low-no grants program and $5.1 billion for the bus facilities program, split among competitive and formula grants. States, local governments, territories and federally recognized Indian tribes are eligible for the grants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FTA will also require transit agencies to explain how their projects will make transportation to jobs, healthcare and retail more accessible for families with young children. Earlier this year, a DOT order established a policy to \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/dot-grant-preference-marriage-birth-rate\/738960\/\" target=\"_blank\">give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates<\/a> higher than the national average\u201d when making decisions about grants, loans and programs.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum federal share for these grants is 80% but increases to 85% for transit buses that are compliant with the Clean Air Act or are accessible to people with disabilities. The federal share rises to 90% for projects to make facilities related to low- or zero-emission buses accessible to people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>As of July 2024, a total of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/zero-emission-electric-fuel-cell-transit-bus-growth\/742550\/\" target=\"_blank\">7,026 full-size zero-emission transit buses<\/a> were funded, ordered, delivered or on the road in the U.S., according to Calstart, a national clean transportation advocacy group. Calstart projects that U.S. transit agencies will have over 15,000 such buses in their fleets by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for this grant funding round are due by July 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/dot-funding-transit-buses-facilities\/748557\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. 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