Lincoln wins $23 million federal grant to build new bus transfer station
City officials announced Thursday that Lincoln has received a $23.6 million federal grant for a new bus transfer station. “If I knew how to do a cartwheel, I’d do one,” Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird said in making the announcement. The new transfer station -- to be built on the block that currently serves as the parking lot for the County-City Building -- is expected to cost $32.2 million, said Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Director Liz Elliott.
Officials plan to begin the design phase in 2023, start construction in 2024 and finish it in 2025, she said. The grant for a “multi-modal” transfer station has been a long time coming: the city has asked eight times for a federal grant to build it to replace the current transfer station near the Gold’s Building at 11th and N streets.
