APTA: $65 million for Public Transportation Security

As provided by the FY 2003 Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations bill, H.R. 1559, the Department of Homeland Security has provided $65 million for transit security at the 20 largest transit agencies based on ridership. To receive funding recipients must submit grant applications to the Department of Homeland Security. Eligible activities include: installation of physical barricades; area monitoring systems such as video surveillance, motion detectors, thermal/IR imagery and chemical/radiological material detection systems, integrated communications systems; and prevention planning, training and exercises. The following are the amount of the earmarks for the 20 transit authorities:

Grants to the following Transit Agencies
	$65MM
1. New York City Transit	26,662,867
2. Chicago Transit Authority	5,117,019
3. Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority	4,577,600
4. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority	3,783,396
5. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority	3,709,839
6. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)	3,388,959
7. San Francisco Municipal Railway	2,411,395
8. New Jersey Transit Corporation	2,346,366
9. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority	1,781,362
10. New York City Department of Transportation	1,389,057
11. Mass Transit Administration- Maryland DOT	1,225,952
12. Long Island Rail Road	1,120,414
13. King County Department of Transportation (WA)	1,098,027
14. Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (TX)	1,062,847
15. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District	976,498
16. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation (OR)	926,394
17. Miami-Dade Transit	896,544
18. Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (NY/NJ)	877,356
19. Regional Transportation District (CO)	825,119
20. Port Authority of Allegheny County (PA)	822,987
Total	65,000,000

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