OH-2025-028
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Application purpose: Reconstruction of eight (8) of GCRTA's Blue Line light rail station platforms.
Activities performed: The existing platforms will be removed and replaced with cast-in-place concrete platforms containing embedded ADA-compliant tactile warning panels.
A ramp structure and elevated section of platform will provide ADA-compliant access to the trains.
Expected outcomes: Stations will be ADA compliant with design focused on safe and secure experience accessible to all riders.
Intended beneficiaries: GCRTA customers accessing the Blue Line, particularly those with mobility issues.
Subrecipient activities: N/A
Activities performed: The existing platforms will be removed and replaced with cast-in-place concrete platforms containing embedded ADA-compliant tactile warning panels.
A ramp structure and elevated section of platform will provide ADA-compliant access to the trains.
Expected outcomes: Stations will be ADA compliant with design focused on safe and secure experience accessible to all riders.
Intended beneficiaries: GCRTA customers accessing the Blue Line, particularly those with mobility issues.
Subrecipient activities: N/A
Funding Goals
THE ALL STATIONS ACCESSIBILITY PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO UPGRADE THE ACCESSIBILITY OF LEGACY RAIL FIXED GUIDEWAY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (E.G. SUBWAY COMMUTER RAIL LIGHT RAIL) FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES BY INCREASING THE NUMBER OF EXISTING STATIONS OR FACILITIES THAT ARE FULLY ACCESSIBLE.
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Ohio
United States
Geographic Scope
State-Wide
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority was awarded
ADA-Compliant Blue Line Station Platform Reconstruction Grant
Project Grant OH-2025-028
worth $16,000,000
from the FTA Office of Budget and Policy in August 2025 with work to be completed primarily in Ohio United States.
The grant
has a duration of 4 years 4 months and
was awarded through assistance program 20.533 All Stations Accessibility Program.
$4,000,000 (20.0%) of this Project Grant was funded by non-federal sources.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity FY 2024 Competitive Funding Opportunity: All Stations Accessibility Program.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 8/25/25
Period of Performance
8/22/25
Start Date
12/31/29
End Date
Funding Split
$16.0M
Federal Obligation
$4.0M
Non-Federal Obligation
$20.0M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
OH-2025-028
SAI Number
OH-2025-028-00-20.533
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Other
Awarding Office
695124 REGION 5 DOT FTA
Funding Office
693JJ8 OFFICE OF BUDGET AND POLICY(TBP)
Awardee UEI
X2GQQ8JNLE54
Awardee CAGE
1ZK92
Performance District
OH-11
Senators
Sherrod Brown
J.D. (James) Vance
J.D. (James) Vance
Modified: 8/25/25