U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Wednesday the Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration will distribute more than $75 million to Kentucky in Fiscal Year 2022, in order to fund public transportation systems.
This is the first of the funding Kentucky will receive over the next five years for such projects.
According to McConnell and his office, he helped secure this public transit investment by supporting the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in the Senate last year. The Federal Transit Administration allocates these funds through federal formulas set forth in the legislation. Federal transit programs direct funding to both urban and rural communities, impacting Kentuckians around the Commonwealth.
McConnell noted that Wednesday’s announcement provides an important boost for Kentucky’s infrastructure development. Both large and small communities in the Commonwealth will soon have the federal dollars necessary to overhaul their transit systems, allowing them to introduce new low-cost transportation options while reducing traffic and congestion.
