Despite protest, the Federal Transit Administration has approved the transportation hub redesign.

The hub will be located at Hayward and Chamberlain Avenues. The hub will include two bays for intercity bus carriers, two bays for regional bus carriers and space for two taxis. Five of the six components of the original design were selected for the new design.

The original design for a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant asked for $42 million  — out of that, the city of Ames received an $8.4 stimulus grant from the Federal Transit Agency.

The redesign is a scaled-back version of the original proposal.

The location of the hub has been meet with opposition; Jonathan Sturm created a petition with 141 signatures from residents.

“We have no problem with an intermodal transportation facility, but put it somewhere else. That kind of facility does not belong on the fringe of a residential neighborhood,” Sturm said in an article in the Ames Tribune.

Sturm sent letters to the TIGER grant team, U.S. Congressman Tom Latham and the Ames City Council to deny funding when the plan was sent in.

The FTA approved the redesigned plan Monday.