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Project Funding
The Department of Transportation Secretary LaHood will award a total of $1.5 billion to states, tribal governments, cities, counties and transit agencies across the country to fund 51 innovative transportation projects. 

The RTC has been awarded $34.4 million in funding from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Discretionary Grant program.  Funding awarded to the Sahara Bus Rapid Transit project will improve mobility, connectivity, and accessibility in Las Vegas and help spur local economic growth.

The RTC is in the middle of a $200 million program of capital improvements that include the Sunset Maintenance Facility, Bonneville Transit Center, and the new Bus Rapid Transit routes.  The Sahara Avenue BRT Project will build synergy with these on-going investments. 

Sahara Avenue Corridor Study
The development of the project comes from a 2007 RTC study of the corridor, which can be found on the Sahara Ave. Corridor Study page.

The following are documents used in support of the application for funding the Sahara Avenue BRT Project:

• Amendment to the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) FY 2009-2030 (Submitted September 10, 2009)
• Technical Memorandum to the Environmental Documentation of the Sahara Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Project
  (Developed September 3, 2009)
• Alternatives Analysis Report to Federal Transit Administration (PDF, 3.6 MB)
  Modeling analysis methodology used to support the model findings of the TIGER Discretionary Grant application
  (Developed 2007)
• “State of the Southern Nevada Economy and its Implications for Transportation” - RTC Report (PDF, 570 KB)
  (Developed September 9, 2009)

Letters of Support (PDF, 1.5 MB)

• Nevada Department of Transportation, July 30,2009 (PDF, 152 KB)
• City of Las Vegas, August 17, 2009 (PDF, 64 KB)
• Clark County Comprehensive Planning, August 3, 2009 (PDF, 216 KB)
• Clark County Board of Commissioners, August 8, 2009 (PDF,156 KB)
• Clark County Public Works, August 11, 2009 (PDF, 220 KB)
• RTC Chairman, Larry Brown, September 4, 2009 (PDF, 172 KB)
• Senator John Ensign, September 10, 2009 (PDF, 216 KB)
• Congresswoman Dina Titus, September 30,2009 (PDF, 393 KB)