Texas Transit Association

Transportation is the second largest annual expense for American families, adding up to more than three times the cost of health care, and exceeded only by housing as an expenditure. For lower-income families, the expense of transportation poses an even greater burden, inhibiting wealth creation, hindering home ownership, and dangerously straining already tight family budgets. This new report from the Surface Transportation Policy Project outlines this issue and ranks 28 major metropolitan areas by the amount of the family budget devoted to daily transportation costs. The Report here Download file

View the Cost of Sprawl by metropoliltan “area”:http://www.transact.org/report.asp?id=225.

How Houston views the Report follows:
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The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has posted on its “website”:http://www.apta.com/government_affairs/positions/washrep/2003july25.cfm. the macro results of FY04 federal transit funding. The appropriations bill for various transportation modes proceeds to full floor action. APTA Statement follows.
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The City of Richardson wants a light rail station in their downtown… and they are willing to pay for it!
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Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel to be supplied by Valero Energy. More.
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Prez Bush has suggested that the States pick up part of AMTRAK costs, similarly to that of the federal mass transit program. Texas US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison thinks that not a grand idea: “If you turn Amtrak over to the states, it’s gone.” More.
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Tolled highway lanes and commuter rail in the future of Collin County, north of Dallas. The Regional Transportation Council explores their options for Collin as well as Denton, Dallas and Tarrant Counties that comprise the Metroplex.
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