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DOT Awards $9.5 Million in Workforce Development Grants

DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx recently announced 19 Innovative ­Public Transportation Workforce Development Program (Ladders of Opportunity Initiative) grants totaling $9.5 million.

“The public transit industry offers good-paying careers that can lift Americans into the middle class or help them stay there, and more of these careers will be available in the future,” Foxx said during the event at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (LATTC). “These grants will help us overcome skills gaps and provide more young people with the training, apprenticeships and educational opportunities they need to gain entry into these careers.”

Los Angeles Metro Chief Executive Officer and APTA Chair Phillip Washington, whose agency received two of the grants, added, “Like us, transit agencies across the country are working to build out their systems and shore up their infrastructures. But our industry must be ‘people-ready’ to deliver these projects. That’s why these grants are so important and why we’re grateful to FTA’s Innovative Public Transportation Workforce Development Program for contributing this funding to help train a new generation of skilled workers.”

The largest grants went to these organizations:

LATTC, in partnership with Los Angeles Metro, to establish the Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology Training, the first in a U.S. community college;

San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, to establish a program to promote careers in low-income and high-unemployment communities and among minorities, veterans and women;

Chicago Transit Authority, to expand its Second Chance training program;

Massachusetts DOT, to improve existing pre-apprenticeship programs in construction;

International Transportation Learning Center in Silver Spring, MD, to work with partners including APTA to integrate two existing projects related to training in railcar maintenance; and

New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to establish a program with the Bronx Design and Construction Academy on trade and technical positions in transportation, design and construction.

Find a list of grant recipients here.

DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx, second from right, at the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (LATTC) where he announced workforce development program grants. Joining Foxx are Los Angeles Metro Chief Executive Officer and APTA Chair Phillip Washington, left, and LATTC officials.

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