The city’s light rail refernedum later this year is spurring discussions of what such light rail and commuter rail developments could mean to economic development, drawing on the Dallas DART experience as a road map.
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A compendium of bills of interest to public transportation in specific and transportation in general. MSWord document: Download file
the text of House Bill 3185 was placed into HB 3184 in the last days of the Legislative Session keeping alive the TxDOT drive to obtain total authority over small urban and rural transit funding. Effective date is September 2004. Download the relevant language.
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It was originally House Bill 3343, but in the end, it became a part of House Bill 3588, the Trans Texas Corridor Bill, and that was after the text of HB3343 passed through three other legislative initatives “in transit,” so to speak. The text of the orignal HB 3343 was passed largely intact except for the exclusions of metro transit agencies form several provisions. The Public Transportation Advisory Council lost its independence as appointment power to the Committee was passed to the Texas Transportation Commission. The committee, appointed by the TTC, will advise the TTC. Download the relevant text:
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The Legislative Session ending June 2 has resulted in an increase for FY2004-05 small urban and rural transit districts of 5.6 percent over that of FY2002-03:
Small Urban State Funding: $20,118,747
Rural State Funding: $37,363,388
Total: $57,482,135
Total funding in FYT2002-03: $54.4 million
Read Greek? Then download the TxDOT appropriation:
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The Congress will be considering bonding for highway and transit projects worth some $50 billion.
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