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Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, formerly a member of Congress representing Peoria, IL, took time out during a recent visit to the city to inspect the first of 20 paratransit vans purchased by the Greater Peoria Mass Transit District (CityLink) with part of a $4.2 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant.

The secretary was in Peoria to speak at the 102nd Lincoln Memorial Banquet sponsored by the Peoria County Bar Association.

According to CityLink, the new CityLift vans are among the first paratransit vehicles in Illinois to be purchased with ARRA funds. The agency is also in the process of using ARRA money to purchase eight 35-foot low floor transit coaches from Gillig, with delivery scheduled to begin in the spring of 2011.

As Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, left, watches, Rick Tieken, assistant general manager of CityLink, demonstrates how seating in the Peoria agency’s new paratransit vans can convert from ambulatory to wheelchair status.

 

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