WASHINGTON, DC — LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE THE RESILIENCY OF TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN EXTREME WEATHER is particularly timely after severe storms flooded the NYC subway station on Monday, July 14. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee, and Congressmember Adriano Espaillat on Wednesday, July 16, reintroduced the Resilient Transit Act of 2025, which would authorize additional funding for resilience improvement projects for public transportation systems.
The legislation would provide a dedicated stream of federal funding to strengthen the resilience of the United States’ public transportation systems as extreme weather events become more common. It would authorize an additional $300 million from the mass transit account of the Highway Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 2026 for resilience improvement grants. It would also apportion those funds in accordance with the existing State of Good Repair Grants Program formula. Resilience improvement projects include the use of structural and nonstructural techniques to better anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to extreme weather events precipitated by climate change, including earthquakes, sea level rise, heat waves and floods.
Gillibrand and Espaillat first introduced the Resilient Transit Act in 2022 and reintroduced the bill in 2023.
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