The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) received a $450,000 Project Grant award on August 8, 2025 from the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration under the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program (CFDA 20.939). The purpose of the grant is to develop a Regional Safety Action Plan for Erie and Niagara Counties to improve roadway safety and significantly reduce or eliminate roadway fatalities and serious injuries involving various users, including...
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) received a $43,182,780 project grant award from the United States Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (FTA) on May 12, 2021. The award was provided through the FTA's Federal Transit Formula Grants program (CFDA 20.507) to fund operating assistance through August 3, 2021. The Urbanized Area Formula Funding Program (49 U.S.C. 5307) makes federal resources available to local and regional government authorities for...
The Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration awarded $238.2 million under the Federal Transit Formula Grants (CFDA 20.507) program to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority on September 13, 2022. The funding will support operational expenses and costs incurred by NFTA-Metro in providing public transit services from January 2020 through September 2024 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, the grant funds will offset negative...
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) received a $106,541 Formula Grant award from the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration under the Airport Improvement Program, COVID-19 Airports Programs, and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Programs (CFDA 20.106). The funding will support updating NFTA's existing pavement management study for airports associated with Niagara Falls, New York. The study is intended to provide federal funding to maintain and...
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) received a $24,002,409 Federal Transit Formula Grant (CFDA 20.507) from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration. The grant will fund preventive maintenance for NFTA's bus and rail assets, as well as the purchase of 7 new battery electric buses. Specifically, the grant will provide $16,480,711 for bus preventive maintenance, $494,421 for rail preventive maintenance, and $7,027,277 to purchase the new electric buses....
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) received a $1,163,870.18 Formula Grant award from the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration under the Airport Improvement Program, COVID-19 Airports Programs, and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Programs (CFDA 20.106). The funding supports reconstruction of taxiway lighting, taxi lanes, taxiways, airfield guidance signs, and airport aprons at Buffalo Niagara International Airport that have reached the end of...
This $1,650,121.11 Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (DOT/FAA) Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) formula grant award to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) will fund the update of the airport master plan and a pavement management plan study for the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. The project is expected to be completed by June 26, 2027. As the operator of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, NFTA has previously received federal...
This $1,952,884 federal Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under the Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs (CFDA 20.526) will fund the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's (NFTA) purchase of two 40-foot clean diesel buses to replace aging buses in their fleet. The grant will also support the purchase and installation of 42 bus shelters across NFTA's service area. The purpose of...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded a $5,637,004.21 Project Grant under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) for the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. The grant funds the construction phase to replace 4 of the existing terminal roof top HVAC units that have reached the end of their useful lives. This project aims to improve, modify, and rehabilitate the terminal building. The award date is December 5, 2023, and...
This $1,915,990 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (CFDA 20.526 - Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs) will fund the purchase of two (2) 40-foot battery electric buses by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) to replace an equal number of life and mileage expired buses currently in revenue service as part of the NFTA-Metro bus fleet. This project aims to reduce NFTA's...