Rockville will construct missing sidewalk segments along Potomac Valley Road and improve 78 Metro and Ride On bus stops throughout the city using federal funding approved in January by the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board.
The improvements include installing bus shelters, adding and updating Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant shelter benches, leaning rails and landing pads, and relocating garbage cans and other equipment to clear pathways.
Rockville will put $99,000 in matching funds toward the $495,000 project.
Rockville’s is one of 17 projects in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to receive a total of $6 million in federal funding under the Federal Transit Administration’s Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities Program, which seeks to remove barriers to transportation service and expand transportation mobility options. A panel of local and national transportation and human service agency representatives selected the projects.
Also selected was a $1.1 million Montgomery County project to provide supplemental assistance for the county’s Call-n-Ride taxi voucher program. The funding will cut the monthly amount that participants with the lowest incomes would pay in half, to $5.25, for a $120 monthly subsidy on a swipe card that can be used with all five taxi providers serving the county.
Find a full list of projects receiving funding at bit.ly/mobilityprojects2018.