Sentences with phrase «of federal transit»

«Cities see light rail as a badge that shows they're a world - class place,» says Timothy Lovain, a transit specialist in Washington, D.C., who helps state and local governments compete for a share of federal transit dollars.

K. Jane Williams — Acting Administrator Federal Transit Administration K. Jane Williams is the Acting Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration.

a description of the ability of the Federal Transit Administration to address discrimination and foster equal opportunities in federally funded public transportation projects, programs, and activities;

The views and policies expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the Federal Transit Administration.

The Comptroller General of the United States shall evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the Federal Transit Administration in assisting recipients of assistance under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, to comply with section 5332 (b) of title 49, including --

You can file a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) in Washington, D.C., by:

A program of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) administered by Easterseals and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) with guidance from the Administration for Community Living (ACL).

Recipients of federal transit funding annually sign agreements with FTA affirming that they comply with federal law, including EEO requirements.

Government - wide transit benefit program standards and uniformity may be established through Federal agency collaboration and coordination that will begin with DOT's establishment of Federal Transit Benefit Practice Groups.

Every 2 years beginning 2019, compile a report on the operation of the Federal transit benefit program for reference when queried by Legislative or public requests for information on the Federal program.

Ms. Kaleta has served as Chief Counsel of the Research and Special Programs Administration, Acting Chief Counsel of the Federal Transit Administration, Special Assistant to the Chief Counsel of the Federal Highway Administration, and staff attorney in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Not exact matches

At the end of October, the Highway Trust Fund becomes insolvent, lacking the funding it needs to continue projects that repair and build the nation's federal, state, and local highways, bridges, tunnels and mass transit programs.

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

Akayed Ullah, 27, faces charges that include supporting a foreign terrorist organization, using a weapon of mass destruction and carrying out a terrorist attack against a mass transit system, according to an indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan.

Anonymous, a 12 - year - old virtual community that's been linked to hacks on everything from the government of Zimbabwe and Bay Area Rapid Transit to Visa, MasterCard and the Federal Reserve, has proven plenty capable of following through with its threats.

The Vancouver Board of Trade is calling on the federal government to invest in transit and trade - enabling projects across the Greater Vancouver region, as part of its pre-budget consultations with the Department of Finance Canada.

A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.

A central part of the federal government's infrastructure plan involves expanding and improving public transit, through their newly established Public Transit Infrastructurtransit, through their newly established Public Transit InfrastructurTransit Infrastructure Fund.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a low - profile minister with a high - impact portfolio, must hammer out huge bilateral deals with all the provinces for their slices of $ 33 billion in federal funds for ribbon - cutting - worthy projects like big public transit expansions.

It continues to be important that provincial and regional commitments are made to fully participate in cost - sharing of the Federal Government's Public Transit Infrastructure Fund.

As an employer, the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals offers eligible employees an excellent compensation and benefits package that includes federal insurance plans, life insurance coverage, leave policies, thrift - savings plans, transit and child - care subsidies, training and development, and work flexibility.

Horgan said Christy Clark's refusal to come to the table and offer a substantial partnership with cities and the federal government will only cause more delays of badly needed transit infrastructure.

But unlike the transit hub, built largely with federal transportation money, the church is being funded through donations including from the Greek government, Greek Orthodoxchurch members around the world, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Italian city of Bari, whose patron saint is St Nicholas.

A White House spokeswoman insisted the reports of funding cuts are «wrong,» adding: «When all federal funding is totaled, NYC has received a net increase of $ 47 million for port and transit security over the previous year's budget.»

«It will result in a reduction of federal funding for mass transit, will significantly impede the MTA's access to the capital markets and will increase the tax burden for all of our customers.

• Implementing the largest reconstruction of the state's transit system in 110 years with $ 5 billion of federal funds;

Westchester, NY — Westchester Congress Members Eliot Engel (NY - 16), Nita Lowey (NY - 17), and Sean Patrick Maloney (NY - 18) announced today that Westchester County has been awarded a $ 3.6 million federal grant from the United States Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration for new vehicles under the Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant Pfederal grant from the United States Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration for new vehicles under the Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant PFederal Transit Administration for new vehicles under the Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant Program.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun on Thursday said that it had taken safe delivery of a baby girl whose mother was in transit along Lagos / Ibadan Expressway.

The panel also proposed tolling on federal roads and 0.5 per cent of transport fares paid by passengers using mass transit for inter-state trips to generate fund for the rehabilitation and maintenance of road infrastructure in the country.

Mr. Katz cited the example of transportation funding in Los Angeles, where former mayor Antonio Villaraigosa worked with mayors of nearby cities to get Washington to vastly expand federal transportation loans to cities like his, and then supplemented that federal funding with a sales tax hike devoted to funding regional transit.

«Last month I wrote to all our state and federal representatives requesting emergency funds to help repair the road collapse on Tonawanda Creek Road east of Transit.

Pleading guilty to federal corruption charges, Kruger became the third member of the «Fare Hike Four» — the gang who killed a 2009 plan to fund transit by -LSB-...]

Among those proposals: Having the federal government approve a state takeover of the transit hub from Amtrak.

Two Republicans signed onto the statement from 15 federal lawmakers backing a federal aid plan for Amtrak to speed along construction of track upgrades at the transit hub: Reps. Peter King and Dan Donovan.

As part of his ongoing rift with de Blasio, Cuomo reportedly has told his top police executives to pull investigators from various state and federal task forces and dispatch them — in uniform — to the city's high - profile transit hubs to boost the state's profile there.

By Sean Ryan Planners of the Kenosha - Racine - Milwaukee commuter rail Monday gave up on waiting for state approval for transit taxes and chose to apply for federal planning money.

Specifically, MAS and RPA ask our federal, state and local elected leaders; the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Amtrak; the U.S. Department of Transportation; NJ Transit; MTA, LIRR, NYCTA, and Metro - North; and business leaders and property owners to commit to the following:

The Federal Transit Administration has granted $ 20.8 million to Metro - North Railroad to harden its Hudson Line against future storm surge flood events the likes of Superstorm Sandy.

«Some of the changes needed would benefit cities all over the country... I would borrow from Mayor Bloomberg's efforts on gun control... but I have a more economic frame... I'm concerned about getting the federal government back into the mass transit and affordable housing business where it was for a half - century and should be and can be again.»

Milwaukee County officials praised elected leaders in the city of Wauwatosa for an initial approval of a proposed bus rapid - transit route, and laid out the remaining local approvals needed before the county could apply for federal grants to pay for the system's construction.

NJ Transit underwent a Federal Railroad Administration audit earlier this year to examine the system's safety protocols, and authorities found dozens of violations, according to an official familiar with the matter.

«Mayor de Blasio and I are working together because it makes sense to work together, because we are in jeopardy of losing aid from the federal government that could absolutely hurt our transit system and our bus system here in New York and in Westchester,» Mr. Astorino said.

Cuomo is counting on a big chunk of the bill to be paid by others: $ 25 billion by the federal government, $ 15 billion by private investors, $ 13 billion by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, and $ 12 billion by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Yesterday, in the cathedral to mass transit known as Grand Central Terminal, four members of New York's congressional delegation joined labor leaders and M.T.A. chairman Joe Lhota to rail against a House transportation bill that would theoretically deprive the transit agency that runs city subways and buses of more than $ 1 billion a year in federal funding.

The members of the city's Democratic congressional delegation who gathered in front of the station's Information Booth said the Republicans were trying to divert the federal funding away from mass transit by claiming that mass transit is «alternate transportation.»

Last month, Mr. Christie and Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York wrote to the Federal Transit Administration to explain how they planned to fund their shares of half of the first phase of the project.

Borough President Katz and U.S. Representative Gregory Meeks recently restated their proposal to open a USCIS Queens Field Office in the vacant space available in the Addabbo Federal Building in Jamaica, Queens, which is optimally located near mass transit and within easy reach of Queens» 2.3 million residents, nearly half of whom were born abroad.

The first phase of the Second Avenue Subway is running two years behind schedule and is poised to run $ 420 million over budget, according to Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who told the Post this weekend that the news comes straight from the Federal Transit Administration.

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Before arriving in the Office of the General Counsel, Ron worked for the Department's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) from 2000 - 2008.