Transportation in the Electric City is about to become a whole lot easier.

“Basically, it's going to be home to all these modes of transportation,” Capital District Transportation Authority CEO Carm Basile said.

CDTA is building its first gateway mobility hub at the corner of State and South Church streets in Schenectady to bolster its service across the Capital Region.

“People can get off a bike and hop on a bus,” Basile said. “People can get off a scooter and hop on a bike.”

Eighty percent of the $5 million project is funded by federal dollars, part of the $296 million CDTA secured through emergency COVID-19 relief.

“The people of the Capital Region should take great pride in CDTA,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

The state's senior senator helped bring the funding to the Capital Region, and joined CDTA and other local elected officials Monday to highlight the new state-of-the-art facility.

“I’m going to say out loud so they can hear it,” Schumer said. “It’s going to move service to Montgomery County. You hear that in Amsterdam?”

CDTA officials reported an increased interest in scooters and bikes during COVID. They said the hub will promote those modes of transportation even more.

“You would think, really, what is the big deal?” Basile said. “But having everything together, we have a common payment platform and a common information platform.”

Bids for construction on the project will be coming in the next few weeks. Depending on how the construction season pans out, CDTA hopes to have the hub up and running early next year.