Source: Visit Quad Cities

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Key Takeaway:

Another U.S. transit agency is interpreting rules from the Federal Transit Administration as barring agencies outside of California from buying open-loop technology through the novel Cal-ITP procurement program.

Key Data:

• Document: FTA responses to public comments on new procurement rules, key page in Federal Register, Jan. 2025

Organizations Mentioned:

• MetroLINK (Illinois)
• Caltrans (California)
• Cal-ITP
• CTDOT (Connecticut)
• FTA (Fed. Transit Admin.)
• Kuba
• Littlepay

The CEO for a transit agency in the U.S. state of Illinois Wednesday told Mobility Payments that the agency did not violate federal procurement rules in hiring three vendors to supply open-loop technology through the California Integrated Travel Project, or Cal-ITP.

The agency, the Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District, or MetroLINK, is at least the second one to interpret the federal rules as prohibiting transit agencies outside of California from buying their open-loop technology through Cal-ITP if they use federal funds. Those rules took effect in February 2025.

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