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[| BRAVO |]

What a bunch of ninnies...  

[kayman]

During the Operation New Birmingham breakfast last week, the executive director of the RPC announced that the new bus system during the In-Town Transit Partnership would cost $65M to construct and $6.5M to operate annually.  The good news is that the RPC is attempting to obtain the Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER federal grant that wouldn\'t require a local match to get this system off the ground, but it would have to apply for by September 18 with it being approved by January 15, 2010.  This would help tremendously because so much of the progress with transit in the region has been held up due to lack of state assistance or incentive and local cooperation from the city and county officials to make it a priority.  

The new website for the ITP is up and here\'s the link: http://www.itp-project.com/

Here\'s the preliminary map of the system for the City Center and surrounding neighborhoods.


Also if you notice most of these routes have temporary endpoints signaling to if a local match is placed that it could become a large system that would serve a large chunk of the region.