RTD to get $18.6M from stimulus for Union Station project - Houston Business Journal:

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million in federal stimulus funds for work at DenveUnion Station, the announced Wednesday. The grant will help pay for desigbn and construction at the historifctrain station, which is to be convertedr into a terminal for several different transportationb modes. RTD is carrying out the transit portion of the overall UnionStatioh redevelopment. The station will be a hub for the regionaltransity agency’s planned “FasTracks” rail transit project. It will also be used by many RTD The $18.6 million comes from a pool of $8.
4 billiojn for transit capital improvements authorized under the American Recoverty and Reinvestment Act of signed into law in Denverf by President Barack Obama on Feb. 17. “Byu reinvesting in our nation’s transit we are making our communities more invigorating thelocal economy, and puttinhg America back to work,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday in a The total cost of redeveloping union station for transit is expecteds to costabout $478 RTD plans to pay about $208 million, with the balancse coming from federal money and other locao sources, Roger Sherman, chief operating officer at Denverr lobbying firm CRL Associatez Inc.
and spokesman for the Denverr Union StationProject Authority, said in May. RTD separately is seekingf stimulus funds for a varietty ofother projects, including $17.1q million to purchase new fareboxes for the transitg system’s bus fleet.