Texas Transit Association

ARLINGTON - Local leaders who believe that a special tax should be collected in North Texas to pay for transportation needs were told January 29 that they shouldn’t give up on the idea, even though it faces a lot of statewide opposition.

Many of the 65 local elected leaders who gathered Thursday in Arlington said they support asking voters’ permission to raise sales taxes or gasoline taxes in Tarrant, Denton, Dallas and Collin counties to pay for trains.
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Local efforts to build toll lanes and increase the sales tax to fund roads and mass transit won’t be enough to keep up with growing traffic congestion, officials in San Antonio have told Transportation Commissioners.
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Businesses find that riders of VIA Metropolitan Transit use the transit system to shop and work.
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At current funding levels, commute times in San Antonio will double in 25 years.
To avoid such gridlock, spending to widen freeways and major streets or expand alternatives such as public transit would need to increase almost four times more than what’s planned.
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TxDOT’s Public Transportation Division will hold a video conferenced hearing in Austin and at each TxDOT District Office with an interactive connection on Feb. 10, 2004. See more by using the *Continued* link:
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… by holding public hearings. The one-square mile size Balcones Heights held public meetings in which residents voiced their opposition.
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