RTA gets $130 million grant from Feds for new rail cars
FTA administrator Nuria Fernandez, RTA CEO India Birdsong-Terry, Congresswoman Shontel Brown and Sen. Sherrod Brown at RTA's rail equipment facility on Friday.
"This is a big, big deal," Fernandez said."Some of [these cars] are almost a half century old, running from way back in the Reagan administration." , a feature list one might expect after decades in technological advancements, from bike racks to state-of-the-art camera systems, easy-to-clean seats and pre-equipped WiFi.
Bolstering public transit as a whole, Sen. Sherrod Brown noted in his speech, is a long overdue step in U.S. infrastructure improvements. Those underway are owed to the passing of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill in November, which President Biden sold as a salve for the rusted, outdated roads, bridges, and tracks of cities.
He added, nodding to the massive heavy rail trains out-of-commission behind him,"These rail cars are all years old. They're all older than the mayor of Cleveland—almost older than the mayor and [Congresswoman Brown] put together."Mechanics and maintenance workers at Friday's press conference at the RTA rail equipment facility in Kinsman.
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