The Courier of Montgomery County reports that federal funding in the amount of $4.5 million has been made available to the City of Conroe so they can purchase compressed natural gas buses for their commuter service to downtown Houston known as Park-and-Ride.
On Monday, 130 awards offering $1.7 billion was announced by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Administration due to President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for transit efforts in 46 states and territories. American-built buses, 1,700 of them, will be funded and manufactured with American labor and parts.
Environmentally and logistically it’s of great benefit. Conroe Transportation Assistant Director, Shawn Davis, says it “means clean buses, less pollution and better commutes.”
According to Davis, transportation development credits will apply toward the required 15 percent match of $675,000. These credits come from what the Federal Highway Administration figured on the total of capital investments made by various states in toll roads and tolled bridges that are federally approved.
Back in 2019, Conroe got the bus service rolling through funding by way of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program which awarded funding to government entities and transit agencies for efforts that helped meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act.
