[Photo via Ed Hille]
SEPTA knows how to rake in the dough, to the tune of $87 million. The Federal Transit Administration's emergency relief program will administer the grant for uses in seven areas.
Here the rundown of the planned budget allocation:
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$18.7 million for railroad embankment and slope stabilization -
$3.8 million for Sharon Hill flood mitigation -
$32 million for railroad signal power reinforcement -
$9 million for ancillary control center to allow emergency remote dispatching of transit service -
$3.7 million for subway pump-room emergency power -
$15 million for Jenkintown flood mitigation -
$4.5 million for Manayunk/Norristown Line shoreline stabilization
·U.S. gives SEPTA $87M to repair, protect infrastructure [Philly.com]