For Immediate Release

October 24, 2011

Contact: Vicki L. Shotland, Executive Director
Greater Hartford Transit District
860.247.5329 Ext. 3002


Hartford, CT. The Greater Hartford Transit District’s Executive Director Vicki L. Shotland today announced the award of $1.69 Million dollars in federal funds. These monies are part of the federal initiative to Put Americans Back to Work Repairing, Rebuilding, and Modernizing the Nation’s Transit Infrastructure.

The funds are available through the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Bus Livability Grant Program. The grant application was submitted on behalf of a partnership that includes the Greater Hartford Transit District, Connecticut Department of Transportation, City of Hartford and Capitol Region Council of Governments. “This project will result in increased access to transit services currently provided at, or planned for, Union Station and will improve the pedestrian connection between the Station and the residents of the Asylum Hill Neighborhood” said Ms. Shotland.

The Greater Hartford Transit District, in partnership with the City of Hartford, will make pedestrian improvements along a 1,620-foot street segment along Asylum and Farmington Avenues. This project will improve pedestrian connections to Hartford’s Historic Union Station Transportation Center, creating safe, convenient, and attractive pedestrian routes to the station from the surrounding residential, shopping, and employment districts.

“The District is very pleased with the transportation investments being made in the immediate area of Union Station and the many benefits that will result from these investments” said Ms. Shotland.