The Federal Transit Administration on Monday awarded King County $6 million in grants that will enable Metro to improve facilities and enhance its ability to monitor and track the efficiency of its transit assets.
Sound Transit received $8.4 million in separate FTA grants that will help replace aging buses with new vehicles featuring hybrid-diesel technology, and will help make the new Link light rail station at South 200th Street in SeaTac more accessible for bus transfers, bicyclists and pedestrians when it opens in 2016.
“This federal investment will put people back to work while developing much-needed transit facilities and making our fleet a little more ‘green,'” said Dow Constantine, King County executive and Sound Transit board member.
The $6 million FTA grant will fund replacement of the roof at Metro’s north transit base, which has reached the end of its useful life. When completed, the green roof will continue to support a neighborhood playground on top, which has been a popular play area for a number of years.
