Contact Information
Local Alliances Manager
Local Coordinator – Tom King

Call!
Office: 903 825 6454
Fax: 720 294 5151

Email!
Tom@JustTransportation.Org

Address
East Texas Just Transportation Alliance
c/o 20755 Bay Shore Drive
Flint, TX 75762-8937

Activities If you are a resident of Tyler or Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Marion, Panola, Rains, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood Counties and want to improve your mobility choices, contact us!The goal organize a viable, self-sustaining, citizen advocate group that can take an active role in the decision-making process. We want to get people working together for improvements and to elevate the conversation beyond confrontation.

The East Texas Just Transportation Alliance (ETJTA) is currently recruiting citizen advocates and a steering committee for orientation and training.Everyone is a transportation expert. It‘s knowing how to "achieve the changes and improvements" needed that does not come naturally for most people. We will work with you to develop the skills needed to become a change agent in your community.

Now, it is your turn to create the future. If you nurture it and help it to grow, it will be a success.

News

GETTA Task Force News

ETJTA Coordinator Tom King was part of the "Team Tyler" delegation that went to Washington November 6-9 to attend the Easter Seals Mobility Planning Services conference. The conference was a working session for local mobility planning groups developing community plans to address the mobility of individuals with disabilities and other transportation challenged citizens. The project is part of a CTAA funded effort involving East Texas Center forIndependent Living and members of the Greater East Texas Transportation Assn. (GETTA) task force to develop a mobility plan for TxDOT Tyler District.

The "GETTA Ride" Task Force has been making strides in developing a coordinated transportation plan for East Texas. The task force has added a new member representing rural Hopkins, Reins, Wood and Franklin counties (the ARK project) and another from Rusk County representing their newly organized local transportation initiative. Both new members were recruited by ETJTA. As a result, GETTA has approved plans to begin work to expand and coordinate transportation in both areas. The first step was to designate 5310 funds next year to Rusk County for an extra bus specifically to serve Rusk county. This project and the planning was the demonstration project Team Tyler worked on at the Easter Seals conference.

The 4 county ARK project has been selected as the next project the task force will take on.
ETJTA has been invited by GETTA chairman Norman Schenck to research and present a concept plan for the creation of a regional mobility management coordination project. ETJTA will present information about RMM’s and how they work to the task force at a regular GETTA meeting this winter. "If we don’t have a long range map for where we want coordination to be eventually," said King, "It’s going to be too easy for us to go astray with our short term projects."

ETJTA Coordinator King received official confirmation of his appointment to the Public Transit Advisory Committee this past week. He is looking forward to bringing an understanding of transit issues from the rural/small urban perspective to the committee. Commissioners have promised PTAC committee members a challenging task as the DOT restructures how transportation funding flows to Texas citizens.