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Commissioners accept Texas A&M demand-response transit plan; ask staff for phased cost options
Summary
El Paso County accepted a Texas A&M study recommending a package of demand-response transit services — co-mingled ADA paratransit, microtransit pilot zones, a user-side subsidy and a volunteer driver program — and asked staff to return with phased cost and funding options.
The El Paso County Commissioner's Court voted April 27 to accept the Texas A&M Transportation Institute's General Public Demand Response Transit (GPDRT) study, a planning document that lays out a multi-component approach to expanding transit in the county's unserved outer areas.
TTI recommended an approach that includes (1) co-mingling ADA paratransit trips with scheduled general-public riders to improve fleet utilization, (2) on-demand microtransit…
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