Federal Transit Formula Grants in New Jersey

Formula transit dollars tagged to New Jersey

CFDA 20.507 is titled FEDERAL TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS. Crossed with New Jersey place of performance, obligations sum to $3,242,125,201 on 23 awards. The national 20.507 hub includes every state. The New Jersey spending hub includes every program. This tie is the overlap.

Twenty-three awards is a modest count for a large transit cell. Formula programs often post a limited set of large awards to designated recipients rather than a long list of bus-stop invoices. The join does not name NJ TRANSIT, PATH, or county operators. Packet facts are $3,242,125,201, 23 awards, NJ, and 20.507.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,242,125,201 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 20.507 and NJ. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks New Jersey against other states on need, performance, or politics.

New Jersey transit riders often cross into New York. Formula grants tagged NJ still stop at the state code. Twenty-three awards totaling $3,242,125,201 (about $140.96 million mean) are CFDA 20.507 records with place of performance NJ. PATH, NJ TRANSIT, and county operators are not named in the packet.

20.507 is not every transit CFDA

Capital investment grants, rural formula, and bus-and-bus-facilities catalogs use other CFDA numbers. Mixing those into $3,242,125,201 would overstate this cell. Highway and rail catalogs are separate as well.

Facts on this page: New Jersey, CFDA 20.507, $3,242,125,201, 23 awards. Unlinked passenger trips, farebox recovery, and project lists are not in the facts. The catalog title names the formula program, not a capital plan.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,242,125,201, 23 awards, CFDA 20.507, program title Federal Transit Formula Grants, and geography NJ/New Jersey. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 23 awards into $3,242,125,201 is about $140.96 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Capital investment grants (a different CFDA) fund major construction. Formula grants (20.507) are the catalog here. $3,242,125,201 on 23 awards is formula × New Jersey. Highway programs are separate still.

Questions

How much Federal Transit Formula Grant funding is obligated in New Jersey?

USAspending records $3,242,125,201 in CFDA 20.507 obligations with New Jersey place of performance across 23 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not FTA’s national total and not an outlay.

Does this include capital investment grants?

No. This join is CFDA 20.507 (formula grants) only. Capital investment catalogs use a different CFDA number. The $3,242,125,201 total does not absorb those cells.

Why 23 awards for more than $3 billion?

The facts show 23 awards totaling $3,242,125,201. Formula programs often post a small number of large awards to designated recipients. Agency names are not in the packet facts.

Is this New Jersey’s total transportation spending?

No. Highway, rail, and other transit catalogs sit on separate New Jersey program pages. The statewide hub is the all-program parent.