Recipient: Targhee Regional Public Transportation Authority

Recipient: Government of Guam- Department of Administration

Recipient: Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority

Take a bus that runs on compressed natural gas and compare it to a light rail car. Which one is more environmentally friendly?

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Transit Administration has selected six transit agencies from around the country to participate in its Transit Asset Management pilot program and share $4 million to help them take a more strategic and systematic approach to determining and anticipating when equipment needs maintenance or repairs, or when it needs to be replaced.

Recipient: Transportation, Iowa Dept of

DETROIT, Mich. - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration convened a panel of highly experienced transit experts from around the country to advise Southeastern Michigan leaders on ways to create a 21st-Century public transit system. While much of the two-day meeting's focus will be on Detroit's planned Woodward Avenue light rail system, the panel will also share insights on how area leaders can work together to develop a larger vision for future public transportation development.

Recipient: Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $3 million from the Federal Transit Administration to support programs around the country that train, hire, develop and retain transit workers.

WORCESTER, Mass. -- Deputy Federal Transit Administrator Therese McMillanmarked Earth Day by awarding $39 million to Worcester, Mass. for the construction of the Worcester Regional Transit Authority's new state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly maintenance and operations center to be built on a former manufactured gas production site.

Recipient: Metro Regional Transit Authority

Recipient: Transportation, New York Department of

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that 46 innovative transit projects chosen for their capacity to help cut the nation's dependence on oil and create a marketplace for 21st century ‘green' jobs will share $112 million in funding from the Federal Transit Administration.

DETROIT -- U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced that transit providers across the nation will receive a share of $928.5 million in federal funds for more than 300 public transportation projects in urban, suburban, and rural areas. The money will put people to work renovating and building much needed transit facilities, manufacturing new clean-fuel buses, and helping communities plan responsibly for their future transit needs.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration announced that the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority can begin work on the University Circle Rapid Transit Station, which was awarded $10.5 million from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery II Program in October 2010.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff made available nearly $25 million to the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority, which serves rural communities in Colorado, for a new express bus service that will improve access to jobs and tourist destinations, and relieve roadway congestion in rural Western Rocky Mountain counties that are now among the fastest growing in the state.

Recipient: Transportation, Michigan Department of

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood approved a $545.9 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan that will enable the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to advance construction of a new light rail transit line along the Crenshaw corridor that will enhance access to existing transit service throughout Los Angeles.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $1.58 billion for 27 transit projects nationwide that will improve public transportation access for millions of Americans while reducing our dependence on foreign oil and curbing air pollution.

When the cost of transportation fuel goes up, individual motorists feel that change immediately and intensely, in the wallet. Some try to ease the suffering by commuting in groups to work or play, rather than individually. That's called mass transit, and it certainly makes sense in the context of sustainability. Yet for the governments that provide it, this buddy system can be expensive, even if fuel costs dip back down.

Recipient: Metrowest Regional Transit Authority

Recipient: Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority

Recipient: Rail and Public Transportation, Virginia Department of

Recipient: Regional Transportation District

HOUSTON, Texas -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration sealed two agreements providing $900 million in federal funds to extend Houston's major light rail system by an additional 12 miles.