This story in the Railway Age updates a recent posting about Portland. The Mayor told us that they had not received federal funding (under the Bush administration) for their streetcar system but that is now changed as they will now get $75 million for its extension.Roughly $45 million of the federal package comes from the federal Small Starts program directed at smaller-scale urban transit systems; Small Starts itself received a funding boost through the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act. Ano...
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