Job Access Reverse Commute Program (Section 3037)

Purpose

To provide competitive grants to local governments, nonprofit organizations, and designated recipients of Federal Transit funding to develop transportation services to connect welfare recipients and low-income persons to employment and support services. Job Access grants are for capital projects, to finance operating costs of equipment, facilities and associated support costs related to providing access to jobs. The Reverse Commute grants are to assist in funding the costs associated with adding reverse commute bus, train, carpool or service from urban areas, urbanized area and other than urbanized areas to suburban work places.

Eligibility

State and local governmental agencies, nonprofit agencies, and transit providers.

Requirements

Applications submitted must contain a description of the applicant's organizational capacity to perform the project, documentation of matching funds, a regional job access and reverse commute plan, transit operator concurrence, and State concurrence to amend the State Transportation Improvement Program (for areas below 50,000 population).

GDOT Contact 

Ms. Quinn Hazelbaker