This award aims to provide the western piedmont regional transit authority DBA greenway public transit (WPRTA) and its sub-recipients operating assistance and capital funding to provide transportation…

This $446,183 Formula Grant award from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under the Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities program (CFDA 20.513) provides operating assistance and capital funding to the Western Piedmont Regional Transit Authority (WPRTA), doing business as Greenway Public Transportation, and its sub-recipients. The funding will enable WPRTA and its sub-recipients, such as Catawba County DSS, to continue providing transportation services for people with disabilities and older adults in the four-county service area. Specifically, the grant will cover traditional capital projects like the purchase of accessible vehicles and mobility management services, as well as eligible operating expenses such as driver salaries, fuel, preventive maintenance, and other items necessary to sustain transit operations. This award is intended to improve mobility options and ensure the availability of transportation services for the target populations in the Western Piedmont region of North Carolina.

Activities

This award aims to provide the western piedmont regional transit authority DBA greenway public transit (WPRTA) and its sub-recipients operating assistance and capital funding to provide transportation services for people with disabilities and older adults. All projects have been derived from a locally coordinated human services transportation plan. Funds will be used to cover traditional capital projects planned designed and carried out to meet the special needs of seniors and individuals with disabilities. These traditional projects in this application include the purchase of service by catawba county DSS and mobility management. Funds will also be used to cover eligible operating expenses such as driver salaries fuel items having a useful life of less than one year preventive maintenance etc. To continue transit operations.

Expected outcomes

Funding will permit wprta and its sub-recipients to continue to provide service for people with disabilities and older adults.

Intended beneficiaries

People with disabilities and older adults in wprtas four-county service area.

Subrecipient activities

Wprta will pass through the capital fund provision of service to catawba county which will oversee the contracted service