TxDOT denies $1.6 million for El Paso bicycle-sharing program
The Texas Department of Transportation slammed the brakes on a bicycle-sharing program for Downtown and Central El Paso by denying $1.6 million in federal funding, at least for now.
During its monthly board meeting on Wednesday, the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority was prepared to move forward with the BikeShare Program, which the City of El Paso and the University of Texas at El Paso had already approved partial funding for. But the plans changed when Raymond Telles, the authority's executive director, said Mark Williams, TxDOT's director of planning, told him earlier this week that TxDOT was not in agreement with the use of the $1.6 million.
The money was going to come from the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program and the Surface Transportation Planning/Metropolitan Mobility program run by TxDOT.
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"This was a great opportunity for the community of El Paso," {Scott} White {of VeloPaso} said. "Austin is getting a program. Fort Worth is barely getting it set up. What is so different with those cities that they get one and we don't?"
The complete story is at http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_23860793/txdot-denies-funding-el-paso-bicycle-sharing-program .
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