The following grants are being awarded:
• City of Jacksonville: $1.5 million to purchase five 28-foot buses, electronic farebox equipment, automated passenger counters, bus fleet equipment, voice annunciation/automated vehicle locator systems, and design and construction of a bus wash facility. The funds will also be used for the design and phase one construction of a bus parking facility.
• City of Gastonia Transit: $2.1 million to purchase five 35-foot clean diesel buses.