(07/23/12) - Flint's Mass Transportation Authority, or MTA. has been awarded $4 million to help replace buses and Your Ride vans.
It's a federal grant that could pay for as many as 40-45 small replacement buses or vans, according to MTA General Manager Ed Benning.
"This comes under the "state of good repair." It's a grant area that allows for replacement of older vehicles, and ours sure qualify," Benning said. "We have rehab vehicles. I have vehicles 29 years old, several that are 23 years old. We have vans today with 700,000 miles."
Benning says, as they put in the request, the intent is to purchase alternative fuel vehicles.
"I recently bought propane as $0.99/gallon and diesel I'm paying $3.49."
It follows MTA breaking ground, last summer, on an alternative fuel facility in Grand Blanc Township. It opened in May.
The most recent grant money continues that push toward "greener" forms of transportation.
Benning says MTA actually submitted three grant requests and hopes to receive least one more.
Monday, May 20 2013 6:34 PM EDT2013-05-20 22:34:54 GMT
(05/20/13) - After a two-week hiatus students in the Buena Vista School District returned to class Monday morning. Jemicah Coleman, a Buena Vista High School junior, says it was a Monday like many other.
After a two-week hiatus students in the Buena Vista School District returned to class Monday morning.
Monday, May 20 2013 11:46 PM EDT2013-05-21 03:46:21 GMT
(05/20/13) - The storm plunged over 15,000 people into the dark and crews are out working right now to restore that service.The hardest hit counties are Gratiot with nearly 5,000 without service, along
(05/20/13) - The storm plunged over 15,000 people into the dark and crews are out working right now to restore that service.The hardest hit counties are Gratiot with nearly 5,000 without service, along
Monday, May 20 2013 11:42 PM EDT2013-05-21 03:42:10 GMT
Bought, sold, traded, stolen and dealt. Moving from person to person, finding a way into a criminal's hands - and too often, ending the journey in a deadly flash.ABC12's Angie Hendershot went inside
Monday, May 20 2013 6:25 PM EDT2013-05-20 22:25:19 GMT
(05/20/13) - The Bay County Road Commission says Midland Road, from Three Mile to Four Mile Road, in Monitor Township is closed. Reconstruction work began on that stretch of road, Monday. Drivers are
The Bay County Road Commission says Midland Road, from Three Mile to Four Mile Road, in Monitor Township is closed.
Monday, May 20 2013 6:25 PM EDT2013-05-20 22:25:00 GMT
(05/20/13) - Lapeer East High School been named one of Newsweek's 2013 America's Best High Schools. Lapeer East is ranked among the top 10 percent. The school also ranked 29th out of 826 Michigan high
Lapeer East High School been named one of Newsweek's 2013 America's Best High Schools.
Monday, May 20 2013 6:24 PM EDT2013-05-20 22:24:41 GMT
(05/20/13) - Thirty-nine churches within the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw are coming together in new parishes with new names, once a merger goes into effect this summer. That diocese merger will take
Thirty-nine churches within the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw are coming together in new parishes with new names, once a merger goes into effect this summer.
Monday, May 20 2013 6:24 PM EDT2013-05-20 22:24:04 GMT
(05/20/13) - One of the five men involved in the Christmas Day 2010 vandalism at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, could be headed back to jail. Nickolas Bright pleaded guilty in court Monday to violating
One of the five men involved in the Christmas Day 2010 vandalism at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, could be headed back to jail.
