Construction on the Advanced Rapid Transit plan's North-South line is expected to begin in January 2025 and be complete by March 2027.
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With long-uncertain funding finally in place, VIA Metropolitan Transit officials christened a project office for what will be known as the Green Line on San Pedro Avenue, where the line operate. For now, the office will display maps and models for the public to view and provide a place where residents can ask questions throughout the construction process.
In between those accomplishments, the federal government approved a $1 trillion infrastructure law at the end of 2021, and San Antonio’s ART plan received $158 million in the president’s fiscal year 2023 budget. VIA plans to construct an East-West line, but doesn’t have the funding solidified yet. It will apply for federal funding later this summer, VIA President and CEO Jeff Arndt said Wednesday.ART’s North-South route will run primarily on its own dedicated lanes, helping it keep a consistent schedule and move quickly even in heavy traffic.
“We found during the pandemic that something like half of the riders of buses were people who had no car, work for wages below the minimum wage, and had to be at work. They couldn’t work from home,” Arndt said. That move, though largely procedural, was one of many steps needed to facilitate an unusual funding structure that has made ART possible.a former acting administrator of the Federal Transit Administration to help advise on the grant process last year and learned an interlocal agreement was needed to shore up the local funding source.
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