Sarah Hildalgo Cook, Transportation Director of the Community Council of South West Texas (Uvalde), has been elected by her peers to fill the vacant rural position on the Board of Directors of the Texas Transit Association. Ms. Cook was seated by the TTA Board at their meeting of Friday, Feb. 13. Her term ends in the summer 2005.
*Small pieces of the puzzle are important to regional strategy*
With the Frisco City Council studying the possibility of funding a fixed-route bus line, we thought the time was right for a Collin County Transit Pop Quiz. Pencils ready.
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Victor Calzada / El Paso Times
A view of the completed Union Plaza Transit Terminal located Downtown, which will officially open today.
El Paso officials see the new Union Plaza Transit Terminal as the first step in giving people an easier way to get in and out of Downtown.
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Sun Metro gets award for error-free contracts
The Federal Transit Administration recently gave Sun Metro a rare achievement award because a detailed audit of Sun Metro’s procurement contracts failed to find a single problem.
Sun Metro Director Terry Lee Scott and city Purchasing Agent Byron Johnson did a show-and-tell about the award at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
“This is a plaque that has never happened — ever,” Johnson said, holding up the plaque from the transit administration.
David Crowder
El Paso Times Wednesday, February 11, 2004
About 250 people braved the chilly grand opening of the city’s Union Plaza Transit Terminal just long enough to get a peek at the gleaming, refurbished Locomotive No. 1. Many huddled around portable heaters, while others frequented the coffeepots as Mayor Joe Wardy and other dignitaries saluted the city’s success in building the $11.3 million transit, retail and parking facility Downtown at San Antonio and Durango streets.
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The Senate approved a $318 billion highway and mass transit measure on Feb. 12, a 47 percent increase over the current six-year act, in the face of a presidential veto threat and resistance from conservatives who accused their colleagues of embarking on a spending spree despite a rising deficit.
Focus now shifts to the House of Representatives.
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