Texas Transit Association

Evidently, based on internal company conversations, Fort Motor Company is poised to drop its production of natural gas and propane vehicles beginning with the 2005 product line. The decision will effect its Crown Victorias, vans, pickups and cut-away vehicles. Ford is expected to shift its focus to electric/gasoline hybrids i the short term and hydrogen over the longer term.

BAF Technologies in Dallas plans to continue to convert select Ford vehicles to propane and natural gas.

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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*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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Spend any time around transportation leaders in the state these days and it won’t be long before you hear the chapter and verse of Texas highways, a line of reasoning recited with liturgical certainty and remarkable consistency.
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