Posted
on Fri Jul 30, 2010
Last updated
Jul 30, 2010
The City of Columbia is poised to receive an extra $6 million in federal funds to continue a pilot project aimed at getting residents to travel using non-motorized means.
In 2006, the city was given a $22 million grant to fund and design roads, trails, bike lanes and other things in an effort to coax Columbia residents to use bicycles or other pedestrian means to get around the city. According to city officials, the Federal Highway Administration has agreed to extend the program.
That means Columbia should be in line for another $6 million in federal funds to continue the program, city officials said.
Details of the plan are included in a memo from City Manager Bill Watkins to the Columbia City Council.
"The official notice of the award is not expected until September or October," Watkins wrote in the memo.
The money is specifically earmarked solely for the non-motorized program and can not be used to fund any other city projects.
