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Re: (rshsdepot) El Paso, TX
I guess they never reinstituted the cross border streetcar?
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>Sent: Oct 31, 2007 8:16 AM
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>Subject: (rshsdepot) El Paso, TX
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>From the El Paso Times.
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>Bernie Wagenblast
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>Train depot to house new international transit terminal
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>_By David Crowder / El Paso Times_
>(mailto:dcrowder_@_elpasotimes.com?subject=El Paso Times: Train depot to house new international transit terminal)
>Article Launched: 10/31/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT
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>The city's Sun Metro transit system will be moving out of its longtime home
>at Union Depot to make way for a new international transit terminal, the El
>Paso City Council decided Tuesday.
>Sitting as the Mass Transit Board, the council selected the century-old train
> depot and the 13 acres around it as the best of six possible locations for a
> transit terminal for the 15 domestic and international bus lines that
>operate in Downtown El Paso.
>Mike McAnelly, a senior planner with the Fort Worth engineering and planning
>company the city hired for professional advice, said that the city needs 3.7
>acres for a 34,000-square-foot terminal and that Union Depot offers plenty of
> space for growth and new transit services.
>In 2005, the city planned to build a terminal and 600-space parking garage on
> property bought from El Paso Electric Co. with federal transit funds for
>$2.5 million at Third and Santa Fe streets. The city abandoned plans for that
>3.2-acre site when it proved to be too small.
>McAnelly said there would not have been room at the Santa Fe terminal for
>additional bus bays needed to accommodate more companies in the fast-growing bus
> transportation industry.
>City Manager Joyce Wilson told council members that because the city used
>Federal Transit Administration money to buy the Santa Fe site, it will have to
>be used for some other acceptable transit purpose or sold so that the money
>could be used by Sun Metro.
>"We have to sell that property," said East-Central city Rep. José Alexandro
>Lozano.
>McAnelly said his company won't be ready to say how much it might cost and
>how long it would take to convert the Union Depot site to meet the city's needs
> until his company's next report to City Council in six weeks.
>If the city goes ahead with that plan, it will mean moving Sun Metro to
>another location, which has not been determined.
>McAnelly said the new terminal can offer an array of services to travelers,
>the large majority of whom will be from Mexico traveling legally in the United
> States.
>He noted that the U.S. Border Patrol has requested space in the new terminal,
> prompting reactions from several council members about the effect that might
> have on business.
>"I wouldn't want to have a Border Patrol office in the bus terminal," said
>South-West city Rep. Beto O'Rourke.
>David Crowder may be reached at dcrowder_@_elpasotimes.com; 546-6194.
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