“We know it’s a very elementary one, a very rudimentary one, but it is a start,” said Diane Rath, executive director of the Alamo Area Council of Governments, of the weekday public bus service proposal.
to develop a pilot program for the bus service in order to establish reliable, safe transportation along Interstate 35. high-speed rail system that has been proposed in the past“We know it’s a very elementary one, a very rudimentary one, but it is a start,” Rath said. In less than 20 years, the population in the four counties from Austin to San Antonio will number 7 million. “And yet we have no public transportation connecting these two thriving metropolises.
“And this is not the end of it,” said Cisneros, who is chairman and co-founder of infrastructure investment firm. “There will have to be other routes and there will have to be rail eventually. But we have to start somewhere.” But committee members, including Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda , who chairs the council’s Transportation Committee, and Councilwoman Teri Castillo said they would like to see the route extended to the areas they represent, including the South and West sides.
Amtrak is not convenient for most passengers, Rath said, because the service does not exclusive use of the rail lines, which are owned by Union Pacific, causing significant delays., she said, because the focus of the proposal is on providing transit service versus travel by privately owned vehicle. But to Councilman Clayton Perry , the real question was why not light rail instead.
The bus service, “imperfect though it may be,” Rath said, is a solution that can start now while rail is a long-term goal. “I’m a huge fan of Amtrak as it exists in the Northeast but as it exists here is a different story.”
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