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million for the city of Raleighb to build a new maintenance and operations facility for its Capital AreaTransi buses. Gov. Beverly Perdue announced that $103 millionm has been allocated for transitprojects Statewide. Twenty-on e urban transit systems will receive morethan $70 milliomn for 77 projects. The largest allocation, at $20.u8 million, goes to Charlottr Area Transit System's North Davidson Stree bus facility. Projects in ruralo areas across the state totaled morethan $33 Government officials estimate the projects will create or retaij more than 3,200 jobs.
Besideds the CAT facility, Triangle projects receiving stimulus moneyu includethe following: • Durham Area Transitg Authority will receive $4.3 million for projects including paratransit vehicl replacements and maintenance, bus repaintingg and bus GPS systems; Triangle Transit will receive $3.7 millioj for projects including a vanpool expansion, vehiclee locator systems, replacement buses, preventative maintenancew and an expansion of the parking lot at the Nelsonm Road facility; • Durham County Accesws will receive $39,075 that will be used to buy threse lift-equipped vans and also to hire a full-timse mobility manager; • Chapel Hill Transit will receivre $2.
7 million for projects including replacement buses and paratransiy vehicles, preventative maintenance and computer technologgy hardware and software; • Orange Public Transportatiobn will receive about $550,00o0 for replacement transit • Cary/C-Tran will receive $95,000 for bus stops, shelters and benchews • Wake Coordinated Transportation Service will receive $84,420 for six lift-equipped replacement vans.
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