{"id":9976,"date":"2021-11-05T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=9976"},"modified":"2021-11-10T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T16:07:07","slug":"news-u-s-house-passes-sen-ossoffs-bill-to-boost-public-transportation-infrastructure-in-low-income-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/news-u-s-house-passes-sen-ossoffs-bill-to-boost-public-transportation-infrastructure-in-low-income-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: U.S. House Passes Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Bill to Boost Public Transportation Infrastructure in Low-Income &amp; Rural Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Sen. Ossoff\u2019s \u201cLocal Transit Planning Support Act\u201d will increase funding to plan transit infrastructure in Georgia\u2019s low-income and low-density areas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013\u2013 Tonight the U.S. House of Representatives passed U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-introduces-new-legislation-to-boost-economic-and-transportation-development-in-underserved-parts-of-georgia-u-s\/\"><em>Local Transit Planning Support Act<\/em><\/a><em><u>.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill passed the U.S. Senate in August and now heads to President Biden\u2019s desk to be signed into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are delivering on promises to expand transportation infrastructure and economic opportunity for all our communities, especially those that have been historically neglected and excluded,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Local Transit Planning Support Act<\/em>&nbsp;will increase Federal funding for transit planning in both low-income and low-density areas and boost economic opportunity and quality of life in urban and rural communities that have historically been underserved and lack access to public transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ossoff\u2019s \u201cLocal Transit Planning Support Act\u201d will increase funding to plan transit infrastructure in Georgia\u2019s low-income and low-density areas Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013\u2013 Tonight the U.S. House of Representatives passed U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s&nbsp;Local Transit Planning Support Act. The bill passed the U.S. Senate in August and now heads to President Biden\u2019s desk to be signed [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9976","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/9976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/9976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9978,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/9976\/revisions\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}