Federal Transit Formula Grants in Rhode Island

Rhode Island x 20.507 is a transit-formula join, not a rider census

This page pairs CFDA 20.507, FEDERAL TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS, with Rhode Island place of performance. The join is an FTA urbanized-area formula listing crossed with a state location field, not Rhode Island’s entire transportation budget and not a census of riders. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $149,692,433 on 9 awards. The extract does not list agencies, riders, or vehicle counts. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state has more need, and not a claim that 9 awards equal 9 agencies or 9 bus routes.

Other DOT listings — INFRA 20.934, rural transit, or different 20.xxx titles — sit outside this total unless they also carry 20.507. Mixing those listings into $149,692,433 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and ridership is not causation. NTD ridership figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Rhode Island locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $149,692,433 in the state treasury. Providence-versus-statewide folklore is not an agency split in this packet. SNAP admin matching 10.561 in Rhode Island is a USDA overlay.

9 awards behind $149.7 million

Mean obligation is about $16,632,492.56 if $149,692,433 were divided evenly across 9 lines. That ratio is not a published grant size and not a cost per rider. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of agencies, buses, or riders.

Nine lines are scannable on the overlay. Formula transit awards often post as few large rows to a designated recipient. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Federal Transit Formula Grants in Rhode Island for the stored table. Do not convert 9 into a map of Rhode Island bus routes. The $149,692,433 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a rider census.

Questions

How much Federal Transit Formula Grant funding is obligated in Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov shows $149,692,433 in obligations for CFDA 20.507 with Rhode Island as place of performance, across 9 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Rhode Island’s full transit budget. Other listings are outside this join unless they also carry 20.507.

Do 9 awards mean 9 Rhode Island transit agencies?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. Formula transit often posts as few large rows to a designated recipient. It is not an agency or rider census. See the Rhode Island 20.507 overlay for named lines.

Does this include Rhode Island INFRA freight projects?

No. INFRA is CFDA 20.934 on a separate Rhode Island join. This page is CFDA 20.507 only. Those freight-highway dollars are not inside $149,692,433 unless the award also carries 20.507. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is $150 million already spent running Rhode Island buses?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $149,692,433 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Ridership, vehicle-miles, and remaining balances are not published in this packet.