Lincoln StarTran awarded $23.6 million grant for new transportation center

Mayor Gaylor Baird announces new multimodal transportation center

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Lincoln will be getting a new multimodal transportation center thanks to a $23.6 million federal grant.

On Thursday, Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird announced that the grant had been awarded to StarTran.

“This law marks the largest federal investment in public transit in U.S. history, and today, here in Lincoln, Nebraska, we will not miss the bus on that history,” Gaylor Baird said.  “In fact, we are kicking things into high gear.”

The grant will be used to fund over 70% of a $32.2 million multimodal transportation center, which