{"id":52213,"date":"2020-08-12T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-archuleta-county-receive-2-3-million-in-federal-grants-for-transportation\/"},"modified":"2020-08-12T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:06:57","slug":"durango-archuleta-county-receive-2-3-million-in-federal-grants-for-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-archuleta-county-receive-2-3-million-in-federal-grants-for-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango, Archuleta County receive $2.3 million in federal grants for transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1d8b167e-6d9d-400f-8a94-63827966339b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1128\" alt=\"A city of Durango Transit bus departs after dropping students off at Fort Lewis College.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A city of Durango Transit bus departs after dropping students off at Fort Lewis College.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Federal Transit Administration will award Archuleta County more than $1.8 million and Durango Transit $479,444 to create a new bus facility and replace aging infrastructure, according to grant documents released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The grant money will go toward a new multimodal center in Pagosa Springs, said Matt Archuleta, operations manager for Archuleta County Public Works Division.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is planned for a parcel on Harman Park Drive next to the Wells Fargo, Archuleta said, and will be connected to a trail project in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Archuleta said there are plans to include a bike rack and potentially a bike repair station to help those navigating the trails.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can go from uptown Pagosa to downtown Pagosa, and it\u2019ll be a silo place where we can keep our buses out of the elements,\u201d Archuleta said.<\/p>\n<p>Archuleta County will be spending about $190,000 on the project as required by the grant\u2019s terms.<\/p>\n<p>In Durango, the money will replace four buses that operate the Walmart and Fort Lewis College routes, one Opportunity Bus and one trolley on the Main Avenue Trolley route.<\/p>\n<p>The city will also match the federal dollars with $119,861 from the 2021 Capital Equipment Replacement Fund as required.<\/p>\n<p>Durango Transit said it has received money from a number of grant programs through the Federal Transportation Administration to replace an Opportunity Bus, support operations and other purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The money is part of more than $14.8 million the agency is awarding through its Bus and Bus Facilities grant program to the Colorado Department of Transportation, which disburses the money to local agencies.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement announcing the money, Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said he was \u201cproud to work with communities across Colorado to support their infrastructure priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Colorado\u2019s rapidly growing population, I will continue to advocate for improvements to our transportation systems to ensure their safety and efficiency for Coloradans,\u201d Gardner said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The grants were part of a competitive application process opened by the U.S. Department of Transportation on Jan. 30 and ended April 29 after an extension because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">Jacob Wallace is an intern for The Durango Herald and The Journal in Cortez and a student at American University in Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>be used to fund improvements to buses, bus facilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[493,28,29,259],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-archuleta-county","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52213"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}