CA-2021-181

Antelope Valley Transit Authority is requesting $8,683,480 of FTA BUILD funds for the purchase of 27 vehicles; eight 40 ft battery electric expansion buses with a useful life of 12 years and/or 500,000 miles, six 30 ft battery electric replacement buses with a useful life of 10 years and/or 350,000 miles, and thirteen 27 ft battery electric replacement vans/buses. All vehicles will meet the Clean Air Act standards (CAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements. Funding for the project included in this grant application is provided by the following: FY19 BUILD funds Lancaster/Palmdale UZA (63510) = $8,683,480. Local match - $5,239,872. Total eligible cost = $13,923,352. The local match portion will be paid by our agency's capital reserve.

Purpose of the award: Repair our outdated routing system to aid our community and leverage our recent and planned improvements in infrastructure and experience gained to maintain and increase substantial benefits from these investments. Provide needed socially distanced transportation on several routes such as to Edwards Air Force Base and Mojave Air and Space Port and Plant 42.

Activities to be performed: Antelope Valley Transit Authority is requesting $8,683,480 of FTA BUILD funds for the purchase of 27 vehicles; eight 40 ft battery electric expansion buses with a useful life of 12 years and/or 500,000 miles, six 30 ft battery electric replacement buses with a useful life of 10 years and/or 350,000 miles, and thirteen 27 ft battery electric replacement vans/buses. All vehicles will meet the Clean Air Act standards (CAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements.

Expected outcomes: Repair our outdated routing system to aid our community by providing strategic new access or increased mobility to key aerospace job sites for the US Air Force and its private manufacturer partners, other job sites, commerce, and services in the greater Antelope Valley (GAV), and connections to other transportation systems/modes to: serve the disadvantaged, boost our regional economy, and support our nation's continued defense primacy; and leverage our recent and planned improvements in infrastructure and experience gained to maintain and increase substantial benefits from these investments: reliability, safety, efficiency, data and control, and energy sustainability using advanced technologies.

Intended beneficiaries: This project will provide expansion buses enabling AVTA to operate new routes to U.S. Air Force Plant 42, Edwards Air Force Base, and Mojave Air and Space Port, and double runs on our central Lancaster Lifeline Route 4, which gives residents of this low-income area crucial mobility to jobs, schools, shopping, and social services. At key hubs, these routes will connect into an economic stimulus network for the GAV, tying in other AVTA routes and regional and interstate bus and rail, and in the next few years, planned high-speed rail from Palmdale to Las Vegas, plus commercial and freight air service at Plant 42.

Subrecipient activities: AVTA does not have subrecipients.

Antelope Valley Transit Authority

20.933 - National Infrastructure Investments

FTA Region 9 [DOT - FTA]

FTA Office of Budget and Policy [DOT - FTA]

California United States

State-Wide

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