PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Eleven Maine transportation companies starting from windjammers to bus strains are certified to acquire assist from a $1.6 billion federal aid deal.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a score member of the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, constructed the announcement Tuesday.
“Bus and motorcoach firms, ferries and tour boats maintain great-having to pay work and supply vital transportation firms,” Collins claimed. “The COVID-19 pandemic took an large toll on these firms, quite a few of that are small and household owned.”
The grant recipients incorporate Chebeague Transportation Agency, which presents passenger ferry firm between Cousins Island in Yarmouth and Chebeague Island BayCycle, a human-driven event boat docked in Portland and VIP Tour & Structure Bus Group in Portland.
Other people embody the Monhegan Boat Line Acadia Nationwide Park Excursions and Transportation in Bar Harbor Downeast Windjammer Cruise Strains and Northeast Constitution and Tour Enterprise of Lewiston.
In different pandemic-associated information:
DOMINANT DELTA
The delta variant continues to be the dominant pressure of coronavirus in essentially the most present assessments by the Maine Coronary heart for Illness Management.
The delta variant created up 100% of 35 sampled situations so significantly in August, versus 86% p.c in July, the Portland Press Herald claimed . In June, delta accounted for under 3.6 % of all examined circumstances.
The purpose out is coping with an improve in COVID-19 bacterial infections due to the additional contagious variant.
The 7-day rolling regular of every day new situations in Maine has risen across the earlier two weeks from 92 new situations for every day on Aug. 2 to 176 new circumstances for every day on Aug. 16.
