{"id":442343,"date":"2026-08-24T21:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442343\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:46:10","slug":"long-beach-transit-receives-544k-grant-for-water-taxi-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442343\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Transit receives $544K grant for water taxi upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded Long Beach Transit a $544,904 federal grant to upgrade its water taxi fleet connecting downtown Long Beach and Alamitos Bay, Rep. Robert Garcia announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The funding will replace aging passenger ferry engines with new ones designed to provide cleaner, faster, and more reliable service for riders while reducing maintenance costs, according to Garcia&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/Copy-of-mug-or-photo-crop-2025-04-15T120116.227.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"&lt;em&gt;The Long Beach Transit AquaLink water taxi as seen in an undated photo from the Office of Fourth District Supervisor Janice Hahn.&lt;\/em&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktla_articles_362\/d31dd0f7e1756fa9663e133ca6b3c333.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Transit AquaLink water taxi as seen in an undated photo from the Office of Fourth District Supervisor Janice Hahn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Investments like this make a real difference in the everyday lives of Long Beach residents. Upgrading Long Beach Transit&#8217;s water taxi fleet will provide a more reliable, accessible connection between downtown and Alamitos Bay while strengthening a unique transportation option that connects residents, visitors and businesses across our waterfront,&#8221; Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rep. Garcia has led efforts to secure federal funding for Los Angeles and Long Beach transit systems ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The grant is part of a <a data-ylk=\"slk:broader $665 million investment;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transit.dot.gov\/about\/news\/trumps-transportation-department-delivers-665-million-modernize-americas-ferry\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">broader $665 million investment<\/a> to modernize ferry infrastructure in communities across the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded Long Beach Transit a $544,904 federal grant to upgrade its water taxi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[118645,40422,131,133,132,12855],"class_list":["post-442343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-alamitos-bay","tag-federal-grant","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-robert-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}