Grants Approved for Transit Projects Statewide

April 22, 2015 - Statewide Transportation Plan - Colorado’s Transportation Commission has awarded $14 million of FASTER* funds for a variety of statewide, regional and local transit projects.

DENVER – Colorado’s Transportation Commission has awarded $14 million of FASTER* funds for a variety of statewide, regional and local transit projects, benefiting bus operators, including cities, counties, special authorities and nonprofit agencies serving the elderly and disabled.

Along with the FASTER funding, the Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Division of Transit and Rail (DTR) is awarding and distributing $7.3 million in Federal Transit Administration funding to agencies statewide, assisting projects such as replacing or rehabilitating buses, expansion of a park-and-ride lot, and rehabilitation of a maintenance garage.

“With recent reductions in federal funding aimed at bus projects, we put an increased emphasis this year on replacing or rehabilitating existing capital equipment, rather than building new projects,” said Division of Transit and Rail Director Mark Imhoff. “In fact, 103 vehicles will be replaced or rehabilitated with these funds, and five RTD light rail trains will be refurbished.”

Imhoff added the buses are not just for large city bus systems. Eighty of the vehicles are smaller ones, serving rural communities or providing specialized service to the elderly and disabled. Another $500,000 was awarded to operate three regional bus routes.

In addition, $3 million in FASTER funds will support Bustang, CDOT’s new interregional express bus service along Interstate 25 between Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs and on I-70, between Denver and Glenwood Springs. Bustang is scheduled to begin service on July 13, 2015.

All the projects listed below are scheduled for Fiscal Year 2016, which begins July 1, 2015:

Federal Transit Administration Funding County & Entity

Arapahoe	Developmental Pathways (Arapahoe/Douglas)	Replacement Vehicle (1)	$52,000
Baca	Baca County	Replacement Vehicle (1)	$48,895
Boulder	Via Mobility Services (Boulder)	Replacement Vehicles(8), Rehab Vehicles (2)	$398,400
Broomfield	Broomfield, City of	Replacement Vehicles (2)	$79,000
Dolores	Dolores County Senior Services	Replacement Vehicle (1)	$26,300
Eagle	Eagle County	Avon Station Bus Shelter Replacement	$120,000
Eagle	Eagle County	Replacement Vehicles (2)	$344,000
El Paso	El Paso Fountain Valley Senior Citizens Program	Replacement Vehicles (2)	$107,420
Fremont	Upper Arkansas Area Council of Govts.	Expansion Vehicle (1)	$81,600
Gunnison	Gunnison Valley RTA (Gunnison)	Expansion Vehicle (1)	$536,000
Jefferson	Seniors Resource Center	Replacement Vehicles (10), Expansion Vehicle (1)	$584,000
Jefferson	Seniors Resource Center (JeffCo)	Computer tablets	$36,800
Jefferson	Easter Seals of Colorado (Lakewood)	Replacement Vehicle (1)	$44,500
La Plata	Southern Ute Community Action Prog. (SUCAP)*	Replacement Vehicles (3)	$152,740
Las Animas	Las Animas Rehabilitation Center (Trinidad)	Replacement Vehicle (1)	$51,800
Mesa	Mesa County	Replacement Vehicles (2)	$248,000
Montrose	Montrose County Senior Citizens Transportation	Replacement Vehicles (2)	$164,800
Pitkin	Roaring Fork Transportation Authority	Aspen Maintenance Facility - rehabilitation	$896,280
Pueblo	Senior Resource Development Agency (Pueblo)	Replacement Vehicles (3)	$53,700
Pueblo	Senior Resource Development Agency (Pueblo)	Routing software	$54,400
Pueblo	Pueblo, City of	Replacement Vehicle (1)	$308,000
Routt	Routt County	Replacement Vehicle (1)	$64,000
Routt	Steamboat Springs, City of	GPS System Expansion	$75,000
Routt	Steamboat Springs, City of	Replacement Vehicle (1)	$492,000
San Miguel	Mountain Village, Town of	Gondola Conveyor and Grip Rebuilds	$172,000
San Miguel	Mountain Village, Town of	Gondola Controls Upgrade	$272,000
San Miguel	Mountain Village, Town of	Gondola Cabin Refurbishment	$176,000
Summit	Summit County	Final design of Dillon Transfer Station	$10,560
Summit	Summit County (Summit Stage)	Summit Stage Operations Center Expansion Design	$43,800
Summit	Breckenridge, Town of	Facility - garage door retrofit	$185,000
Summit	Breckenridge, Town of	Replacement Vehicle (1), Rehab Vehicles (2)	$734,000
Teller	Teller Senior Coalition (Woodland Park)	Expansion Vehicle (1)	$52,000
Weld	Greeley, City of	Replacement Vehicle (1)	$393,340

FASTER Funding County & Entity

Eagle	Eagle County	Vehicle Expansion (1)	$104,000
El Paso	Mountain Metropolitan Transit (Colorado Springs)	Replacement Vehicles (7) - match for federal funds	$802,400
El Paso	Silver Key Senior Services (Colorado Springs)	Replacement Vehicles (3)	$128,000
Fremont	Upper Arkansas Area Council of Govts.	Vehicle Expansion (1) - match for federal funds	$20,400
Garfield	Roaring Fork Transportation Authority	Glenwood Springs Maintenance Facility Expansion	$500,000
Garfield	Roaring Fork Transportation Authority	Carbondale PnR Expansion	$802,050
Garfield	RFTA	Rifle to Glenwood Springs regional service- operating funds	$200,000
Gunnison	Mountain Express (Crested Butte)	Replacement Vehicles (2)	$165,600
La Plata	Durango, City of	Replacement Vehicles (7)	$448,000
La Plata	Southern Ute Community Action Program (SUCAP)	Replacement Vehicle (1) - match for federal funds	$8,800
La Plata	La Plata County	Replacement Vehicles (2)	$82,000
Larimer	Transfort (Fort Collins)	Replacement Vehicles (8) - match for federal funds	$200,000
Larimer	Transfort/Fort Collins	FLEX, Fort Collins to Longmont regional service- operating funds	$200,000
Larimer/Weld	North Front Range MPO	Replacement Vehicles (8)	$240,000
Las Animas + Huerfano	South Central Council of Governments	Replacement Vehicles (2)	$102,400
Mesa	Mesa County	Replacement Vehicles (3)	$384,000
Morgan + 5 (Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma)	Northeastern Colorado Association of Local Governments (NECALG)	Replacement Vehicles (6)	$266,930
Pitkin	City of Aspen	Replacement Vehicles (3)	$720,000
Pitkin	Snowmass Village, Town of	Replacement Vehicles (3)	$600,000
Routt	Steamboat Springs, City of	Craig to Steamboat Springs regional service- operating funds	$132,515
STATEWIDE	CDOT Division of Transit and Rail	Bustang interregional bus service - operating funds	$3,000,000
Summit	Summit County (Summit Stage)	Frisco Transfer Center Improvements	$460,000

*FASTER/CBE: Funding Advancements for Surface Treatment and Economic Recovery (Senate Bill 09-108) passed July 1, 2009. Comprised mainly of car rental and weight-based vehicle registration fees, funds are used for construction or maintenance projects that the State Transportation Commission, a county, or municipality determine are needed to make a state highway, county road or city street safer. FASTER allocates money to projects based on a distribution formula of 60 percent to the state, 22 percent to counties and 18 percent to municipalities.
FASTER also established the Colorado Bridge Enterprise (CBE), a government owned business entity within CDOT, to fund maintenance, repair or replacement of the state’s most structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridges.