"The new stop in Northridge is one of seven emergency stops added to Metrolink lines since the Jan. 17 earthquake to help ease commutes, said Metrolink spokesman Peter Hidalgo. The Federal Emergency Management Agency provided an emergency $63-million grant to pay for the expansion of the Metrolink system after the quake damaged several freeways"

SP5103 Wrote:
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> Often, the government money after a disaster goes
> to the response costs of the disaster as well as
> to state/local governments for their costs and
> repairs. I think some money gets transferred to
> SBA for small businesses and sometimes grants to
> individuals that might qualify. To big
> corporations not so much unless they manage to
> slip it under the table.
>
> On a related note - the $1.2 TRILLION dollar
> bipartisan infrastructure plan is hung up over the
> funding amount for transit. Pre-pandemic transit
> got about $13 BILLION dollars a year but the
> recent relief bills that have passed bumped that
> up to around $83 BILLION dollars of which only
> about half has been spent so far. That is supposed
> to be the major sticking point - how much money
> for transit that we don't yet know what will be
> needed in the new economy for projects that no one
> can get enough workers or materials for? And the
> political shenanigans continue.....