Sheila Holbrook-White, Executive Director

Texas Citizen Fund- Just Transportation Alliance

• Genesis: Research and demonstration project commissioned by Congress in 1988

• Pre-ADA: To improve access to public transportation for people with disabilities

Expanded post-ADA mission:

• Promote cooperation between the disability

community and the transportation industry

• To increase mobility for people with disabilities under the ADA and beyond

Objectives: Assess Use Patterns & Gather Data Directly

Objective: Respond constructively to Citibus’ challenges

• Mayor-City Council appointed a seven-member Public Transportation Strategic Task Force to prepare a plan to respond

• Public Transportation Strategic Task Force accepted and endorsed each recommendation made by the Collaborative to the Mayor-City Council

• Mayor-City Council provided Citibus with significant Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds of consumer concern

Objective: To grow the number of those who see themselves as having ownership/interest in Citibus

• Public Transportation Strategic Task Force: Major employers & opinion leaders

• City Council members met with Texas Transportation Commissioners on behalf of Citibus

• Members of the disability community and residents urged the MPO to increase the funds allocated to Citibus in the long-range 20 year plan (MTP) and to prepare strategically for a regional transportation system (UPWP)

• Mayor-City Council appoints first person with a disability to Citibus Board

• Currently, the South Plains Transportation Alliance is pressing the City Council for additional funds to Citibus to restore half-hour services

• Currently, discussions are ongoing about piloting a Medicaid Transit Pass program