The agency will be able to order its first batch of 24 cars for the Red Line, a heavy-rail line servicing between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Downtown Cleveland, and the Louis Stokes Station at Windermere in East Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority celebrated Friday that it finally has the funding needed to complete most of its railcar replacement transformation, updating one of the oldest fleets in the nation.
The agency was awarded $130 million in federal assistance it had been waiting for to close most of its funding gap and be able to order its first batch of 24 cars for the Red Line, a heavy-rail line servicing between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Downtown Cleveland and the Louis Stokes Station at Windermere in East Cleveland.
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