The Regional Transportation District has been awarded a total of $11 million in federal grants for new buses and to replace roofs on its maintenance facilities, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.

The metro-Denver transit agency scored the lion’s share of the $15.9 million in grants for Colorado bus-transit projects awarded by the federal agency under its Buses and Bus Facilities Infrastructure Investment Program.

“These grants will help rebuild and modernize bus systems across the country for greater safety,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in announcing $366.2 million in bus grants nationwide.

The grants for RTD were awarded in two blocks, the announcement said:

The Transportation Department also announced grants to other Colorado transit programs:

The federal Transportation Department said chose 107 projects to fund in all 50 states out of 339 projects submitted. The total cost of all submitted projects would have been about $2 billion, the agency said.