Jeff Bingaman United States Senator from New Mexico

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today announced that several New Mexico communities will share more than $774,796 in federal transit grants.  The funds come through the U.S. Department of Transportation and will be used to support bus and other transit services throughout the state.

"This federal grant funding will allow our state to invest in the transit systems that so many New Mexicans have come to rely upon," Bingaman said.

The funding will be awarded as follows:                           

$26,480 City or Carlsbad for bus bike racks, benches, bus shelters and equipment.             

$1,120 for Golden Spread Coalition (Union County)                                    

$2,400 City of Hobbs for mobile radios                                            

$278,000 for Los Alamos County for software, benches and bus shelters

$102,400 for Navajo Nation for service truck, transit software, computers, equipment                            

$9,294 to Na'Nizhoozhi, Inc., (serving the Navajo Nation) for equipment                          

$64,000 to North Central Regional Transit District (serving Espanola/Rio Arriba/Los Alamos) to replace a bus

$36,000 to Ohhay Owingeh for a minivan

$4,800 to Rio Metro Regional Transit District (serving Sandoval, Bernalillo & Valencia counties) for computers and other equipment

$138.960 to Roswell for one bus and one van, and for computers

$2,800 to Ruidoso Downs for equipment

$26,542 to Southwest Regional Transit District (serving Luna, Hidalgo & Grant Counties) for minivan and radios

$50,000 to Zia Therapy (serving Alamogordo / Otero County) for equipment, computers, and mobile radios        

$32,000 to ZEE, Inc. (serving Pueblo of Zuni/McKinley County) to replace a minivan