Texas Transit Association

San Antonio news article explores an exploding — and lively — downtown Houston, the result of planned revitalization and METRORail.
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To state leaders and legislators today, relying almost solely on state gas taxes to maintain and pay for roads is no longer enough — and they have set their sights on the 21st-century technology of electronic tolling.

But recent studies and some North Texas leaders are raising questions about whether the new technology can ever match the traditional power of pay-at-the-pump taxes.
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in MetroRail’s first month of operation. The service began Jan. 1, 2004.
See Take a “tour”:http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2405431 to Explore Houston’s new light rail system.
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BALCONES HEIGHTS, Texas — VIA Metropolitan Transit is making sure students at Arnold Elementary who live in Balcones Heights have a safer way of getting to school.
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From the Federal Register. Includes full allocations and partial allocations due to Continuing Resolutions.
Large §5307: Download file
Small §5307: Download file
Fixed Guideway Download file
Bus Earmarks Download file
New Starts Download file
Rural Download file
Elderly & Disabled Download file
JARC Download file

Two items from TxDOT Public Transportation Division (PTN):
1. Formula Comments: The web site for providing and reading comments on the state and federal funding formulas for rural and small urbanized public
transportation operators is now operational. Please visit the following
“site”:http://www.dot.state.tx.us/ptn/geninfo.htm to provide and read
input.
2. Heads Up on Intercity Bus RFPs: the Public Transportation Division will be publishing a Request for Proposals (RFP) in the Feb. 20 _Texas Register_ solicitsing proposals for projects that will develop, support, or promote intercity bus mobility according to the program guidelines outlined in the Federal Circular  9040.1E