The purpose of the award is to provide preventative maintenance assistance for the HOP streetcar

The Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration awarded the City of Milwaukee $405,536 on August 20, 2026, under the Federal Transit Formula Grants program (CFDA 20.507) to fund preventative maintenance assistance for the Hop streetcar.

The award finances contracted maintenance-of-way and streetcar vehicle maintenance services. The city will deliver these preventative maintenance activities through December 30, 2026, at the place of performance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The grant is intended to ensure safe and reliable transit service for citizens, workers, students, and visitors to Milwaukee, with particular benefit to transit-dependent populations, while generating economic development along the fixed guide-way route. No sub-recipients are involved in this award.

Activities

The activities performed are typical transit preventative maintenance activities including contracted maintenance-of-way and streetcar vehicle maintenance services.

Expected outcomes

The outcome of the preventative maintenance assistance grant will be the provision of safe reliable transit service for CITIZE3NS workers students and visitors to milwaukee as well as resultant economic development along the route in the city of milwaukee generated by fixed guide-way transit.

Intended beneficiaries

The beneficiaries of this preventative maintenance grant include citizens workers students and visitors to milwaukee and particularly transit-dependent segments of the population who benefit from improved mobility options.