Lang
6/26/23
Iowa City Transportation Services has received a sizable $23.2 million grant to replace the city’s aging transit facility and purchase four additional electric buses.
The grant money, totaling $23,280,546, comes from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) as part of its Low or No Emission/Busses and Facilities programs. The grant money will fund the city’s Zero-Emission Transit Operations Maintenance Facility, while also doubling Iowa City’s electric bus fleet.
The funds will help replace the current Transit Facility at 1200 S. Riverside Drive, which was built in the 1980s. With the existing facility aging and in poor condition, city officials say the funds will be instrumental for constructing a modernized facility from which the city can provide safe, affordable, convenient, and sustainable transportation services to the community for decades to come.
Transportation Services currently provides rides to over 1.1 million people annually and expects ridership to grow as the city commences a two-year “Fare Free Iowa City” pilot later this summer.