{"id":100206,"date":"2018-03-26T07:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=100206"},"modified":"2018-03-26T07:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:23:53","slug":"ohio-to-get-additional-highway-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/26\/ohio-to-get-additional-highway-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio to get additional highway funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced that the recently passed government funding measure includes $67 million in new federal funding for Ohio through the Federal Highway Administration, $9.9 million of new funding for Ohio\u2019s public transit agencies, plus additional funding for The Ohio State University and the Transportation Research Center to expand testing of zero-emission buses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestments in our roads and bridges create jobs and allow Ohio communities to grow,\u201d\u00a0said Brown. \u201cOhio is leading the way in innovative transportation solutions, including The Ohio State University\u2019s work to support zero-emission bus manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spending bill that Congress passed includes funding for important Ohio transportation priorities, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$67 million to fund Ohio road projects through the Federal Highway Administration\u2019s surface transportation block grant.\u00a0This money supplements the approximately\u00a0$1.4 billion of federal highway funding Ohio will receive this year under the FAST Act, the current long-term surface transportation authorizing law.<\/li>\n<li>$1.5 billion for the TIGER grant program, which is a $1 billion increase. Brown recently unveiled a new infrastructure proposal\u00a0that would expand the TIGER Grant Program. Brown has worked to secure TIGER grants for Ohio communities.<\/li>\n<li>$9.9 million to fund Ohio\u2019s public transit system, through the Federal Transit Administration\u2019s \u201cState of Good Repair and \u201cBuses and Bus Facilities\u201d formula programs. This money supplements the approximately $187 million of transit funding Ohio will receive this year under the FAST Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->The bill specifically includes\u00a0$2 million\u00a0to expand testing of new low-emission and zero-emission buses. The Ohio State University (OSU) and the university-affiliated Transportation Research Center (TRC) are one of just two testing centers in the nation that the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) will utilize to undertake the work.<\/p>\n<p>Brown &#8212; who serves as the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, which oversees FTA &#8212; worked to secure the funding, and he included language to allow manufacturers of electric, fuel cell and other low-emission vehicles to bring their new models to Ohio for testing.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, all testing of new bus models had to be conducted at a single oversubscribed facility in Pennsylvania. Allowing OSU and TRC to conduct testing will speed the delivery of low-emission buses to public transportation agencies working to reduce fuel consumption and improve air quality.<\/p>\n<p>Brown was previously instrumental in obtaining a\u00a0grant for The Ohio State University\u00a0for testing bus components, which qualified their testing center for the latest funding.\u00a0During Senate consideration of the Fixing America\u2019s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act in 2015, Brown worked to double federal investment in zero-emission projects in public transit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) announced that the recently passed government funding measure includes $67 million in new federal funding for Ohio through the Federal Highway Administration, $9.9 million of new funding for Ohio\u2019s public transit agencies, plus additional funding for The Ohio State University and the Transportation Research Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 06:44:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}