{"id":384489,"date":"2023-02-01T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=384489"},"modified":"2023-02-01T06:06:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:06:17","slug":"cota-to-get-1-48m-from-fta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cota-to-get-1-48m-from-fta\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018COTA to get $1.48M from FTA\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Office of Transit Authority will be receiving $1.48 million in fiscal year 2023 from the Federal Transit Administration, according to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan disclosed in his e-kilili newsletter that the FTA announced Friday the availability of this funding for COTA.<\/p>\n<p>FTA said nearly $1.7 billion is available to support state and local efforts to modernize aging transit fleets with low-and no-emission buses, renovate and construct bus facilities, and support workforce development.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said the formula funds apportioned to the Marianas come mainly through the Rural Area Formula Program and the Buses and Bus Facilities Formula Program.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Rural Area Formula Program supports public transportation in areas with populations of less than 50,000.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said the Buses and Bus Facilities Formula Program supports replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities. <strong><em>(Ferdie de la Torre)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Office of Transit Authority will be receiving $1.48 million in fiscal year 2023&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":384490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}