The financially strapped Topeka Metro bus service got a jolt of good news Thursday in the form of a nearly $1.74 million federal grant to help it buy or lease environmentally friendly electric buses.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration has awarded the Topeka Metropolitan Transit Authority, which oversees Topeka Metro, that grant to buy or lease of “zero-emission and low-emission transit buses,” Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced in a news release.
The grant — totaling $1,737,825 — may also go to cover costs that include the “acquisition, construction and leasing of required supporting facilities such as recharging, refueling and maintenance facilities,” said Moran, who is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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