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Article: RTA given cash infusion; Baton Rouge-New Orleans shuttle extended
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- New Orleans CityBusiness
- Article date:
- December 11, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $13.6 million will
go to the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority to run streetcars
and buses and repair Katrina-damaged vehicles.
Most of RTA's 372 buses were damaged or destroyed by flooding
after last year's hurricane, and the 24 red streetcars on the Canal
Street line were destroyed.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has already granted $43
million to repair New Orleans' storm-damaged public transit system.
Streetcars from the historic ...