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VIA advances Green and Silver ART lines, orders vehicles and plans second operations facility
Summary
VIA told the San Antonio Transportation & Infrastructure Committee on Nov. 4 that the Green Line is 100% designed and moving into major construction while the Silver Line is 40% designed, with significant federal grant requests and a proposed second operations and maintenance facility to support larger ART vehicles.
VIA told the San Antonio Transportation & Infrastructure Committee on Nov. 4 that the Green Line advanced-rapid-transit (ART) project is in 100% design and moving into major construction phases, and that the agency is preparing a second operations and maintenance facility to support larger ART vehicles.
Manjiri Akalkotkar, VIA’s major capital program officer, said the Green Line construction limits span 10.35 miles between U.S. 281 and Roosevelt Avenue, with service scheduled to run from the airport through San Pedro, downtown and Brooks. The project will use CNG articulated 17 vehicles with 10-minute weekday frequencies; VIA’s total Green Line budget is $480,800,000, including $268,000,000 in federal New Starts grant funding. Akalkotkar said construction drawings have been issued to the construction manager…
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