The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and Gov. JB Pritzker announced that $113.8 million was awarded to downstate transit providers as part of the Rebuild Illinois capital program.

The announcement was made in Decatur, Illinois and was created to celebrate three awards that will help expand the transit campus, add solar panels on a bus barn, and replace vehicles with hybrids. This announcement is the third round of competitive grants across the region to update transit.

 
Awards support projects that include the purchase of new vehicles as well as bus shelters, stations, and maintenance facilities.

A total of 32 transit systems are receiving $113.8 million to advance 44 projects, including:
???,??? St. Clair County Transit District, $10.8 million for the electrification of transit vehicles with supporting charging stations.
???,??? Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, $7.2 million for hybrid bus replacement.
???,??? Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District (MetroLINK), $6 million to replace six buses with zero emission buses.
???,??? Sangamon Mass Transit District, $6.9 million for a secondary transfer center.
???,??? Coles County, $70,000 for new bus passenger shelters.
???,??? City of Macomb and McDonough County Public Transportation, $2 million for new buses.
The first two rounds of these grants went to projects such as the renovated transit facility and passenger information kiosks for the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, a new transportation center in downtown Bloomington and a new building to serve as a headquarters, training facility and dispatch center for the West Central Mass Transit District in Jacksonville.