On Thursday, the Healey-Driscoll administration released $10 million in new funding for the state’s Regional Transit Authorities (RTAs) – the transit agencies that operate bus service outside of the MBTA’s service region – to bolster service and introduce new routes, with a focus on improving regional connections between RTA service areas.

The Biden administration’s Reconnecting Communities program received $14 billion in requests for $1 billion total funding. A new bill would greatly expand it.