SUN METRO: EL PASO'S TRANSIT TURNAROUND SUCCESS STORY

El Paso's transit system had been leading a struggling existence until a narrow victory at the polls in November of 1987 won a one-half-cent sales tax for mass transit support. As a result, the Mass Transit Department Board took command of the transit system, increased demand-responsive services by 50 percent, restored service where it had been discontinued, expanded routes, added additional weekend and evening services, entered into a successful joint partnership with a prviate concern to provide an employee shuttle service, increased bus driver morale and performance by selecting one professional looking uniform and establishing Safe Driving Award Programs which have seen an increase in the number of qualifying drivers each year, and is currently testing alternative fuels and cooling techniques to enhance air quality while continuing in its efforts to make all public transit fully accessible by 1991.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Friendship Publications, Incorporated

  West 2627 Providence, P.O. Box 1472
  Spokane, WA  United States  99210-1472
• Publication Date: 1990-10

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 38-40
• Serial:
  • Bus Ride
  • Volume: 26
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Friendship Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0192-8902
  • Serial URL: http://www.busride.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Alternate fuels; Bus drivers; Cooling; Demand responsive transportation; Ridership; Sales tax; Sulfur; Testing; Trolleybuses; Wheelchair lifts
• Geographic Terms: El Paso (Texas)
• Old TRIS Terms: Evaporative cooling
• Subject Areas: Energy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00601217
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1990 12:00AM