Texas Transit Association

TxDOT Commission Meeting Schedule

Regular commission meetings begin at 9 a.m. at the Dewitt C. Greer Building at

125 East 11th Street in Austin 

· March 26, 2009 

· April 30, 2009 

· May 28, 2009 

For more fun photos from our 2009 Texas Transit Conference & Mini Expo: Fun Photos of 2009 Conference.pdf

SWTA Sponsored, www.swta.org 

APTA Fare Collection Workshop

March 15 - 18, 2009
Hilton Post Oak
Houston, Texas

Attention bus operators and maintenance teams! This is your chance to show off your skills! Come one, come all. Bring your families! 

Let’s Roadeo!  Saturday, April 18^th hosted by DART  Location:  ARAPAHO CENTER STATION  1000 North Greenville Avenue Richardson, Texas 75081 Click here (2009 Roadeo Flyer and Forms.pdf ) for more information and registration forms. REGISTER TODAY!!! If you have any questions, please give us a call.

This year’s conference was a huges success, thanks to these generous sponsors:

The Goodman Corporation

First Transit

National Bus Sales, Champion, Goshen

MV Transportation

AECOM

Q’Straint

Rush Bus Centers

Lasseter, Texas Bus Sales, El Dorado

Ricon, Vapor Bus

Twin Vision, Digital Recorders

Carrier

Texas Alternator Starter

RouteMatch

This year Texas Transit Association’s awards focused on the extraordinary and heroic acts of our transit members in the wake of Hurricane Ike in September 2008.

In recognition of their outstanding service during this difficult time are:

Outstanding Metropolitan Transit System—Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County;

Outstanding Small Urban Transit System—Galveston Island Transit;

and Outstanding Rural Transit System—The Gulf Coast Center, all of whom gave unselfishly of their time and resources to rescue and relocate victims of the hurricane. 

Other 2009 winners are: 

Outstanding General Manager—Gary Thomas, Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority

Outstanding PTC—Armida Sagaribay, TxDOT, El Paso District

Outstanding Staff Member— Joe Morris, Chief of Staff, Senator Wentworth

Outstanding Associate Member—Lionel Young, Q’Straint 

Lifetime Service Award—John Milam, former CEO of VIA

We were privileged to have Texas Transportation Commission Chair Deirdre Delisi as our guest speaker, and former Chair, Hope Andrade, who was this year’s recipient of TxDOT’s Friend of Texas Transit Award.