Texas Transit Association

Deep cuts in state transit funding, and now, a very slowed Texas economy, are all impacting public transportation agencies around the State. Legislative cuts of the last Session, which began in earnest in 2001 are still being felt in rural and small city Texas and their public transit services. The latest fatality is metropolitan transit as local city, and transit, sales taxes have fallen precipitously over the last year. The State Comptroller noted on Feb. 26 before a Texas Senate Finance Committee meeting that Texas has experienced an historic two-consecutive years of declining sales tax revenues. Transit authorities with sales taxes are beginning to initiate fare increases to cope with these revenue reductions and attempting to keep service up.

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