Transportation

Big, yellow and thirsty: School districts looking for ways to pay for fueling fleets of buses
Notice I have created a new category for Transportation! School district leaders worry rising fuel prices will guzzle their budgets. Since the beginning of the school year, districts' cost per gallon on diesel has increased by more than a dollar and gasoline prices by around 70 cents. So, school district leaders have had to pick at other areas in their budgets to pay for fuel. In McAllen, leaders are looking at scaling back some maintenance projects and waiting on purchasing instructional technology like overhead projectors and electronic chalkboards. In Mission, administrators might have to put off buying newer, more fuel-efficient buses. [ View Article ] May 13, 2008, 08:32

Brownsville: Big, yellow and thirsty: School districts looking for ways to pay for fueling fleets of buses
School district leaders worry rising fuel prices will guzzle their budgets. Since the beginning of the school year, districts' cost per gallon on diesel has increased by more than a dollar and gasoline prices by around 70 cents. So, school district leaders have had to pick at other areas in their budgets to pay for fuel. [ View Article ] May 13, 2008, 07:45

School districts consider propane buses
The pain at the pump has area school districts hoping a green alternative will also save them some green. Some districts are looking into using propane-fueled buses. [ View Article ] May 12, 2008, 08:15

Temple ISD bus involved in accident
Four 5th grade students from Thornton elementary in Temple were sent to the hospital after a vehicle ran into their school bus. District officials say it happened around 11:00 Wednesday morning when the bus was at the intersection of Loop 363 and 57th Street. They say a vehicle ran the stop light and collided with the bus. There were no major injuries. [ View Article ] May 9, 2008, 07:45

Buses might be taking an alternate route
Area school transportation officials heard about a new propane school bus and government incentives to help with purchases at a Wednesday meeting with Michael L. Williams, Railroad Commission of Texas chairman. "My interest is to encourage the utilization of alternative fuels," Williams said. "It just so happens that the commission has a long-standing history in the propane world." The chairman's Beaumont stop was a part of a seven-city tour to highlight the buses' low emissions and possible cost savings [ View Article ] May 8, 2008, 08:37

Grants Available for Each New
AUSTIN, Texas (May 6, 2008) — As part of a state-wide tour, Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Michael Williams will visit seven school districts in the next week to push officials to replace their older diesel buses with newer, cleaner propane buses. Williams has even gone so far as posting a video on YouTube to reach people across the entire state of Texas. The 2008 Breathe Easy Texas Propane Tour visited Kilgore yesterday and will continue on to San Antonio today, and Beaumont, Houston, Austin, Richardson and Fort Worth throughout the rest of the week. "These visits will focus on the air quality benefits and the big cost savings available to districts that run their school buses on alternative fuels," said Williams in his video invitation. "The new propane bus reduces key emissions by more than 85 percent." The Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s energy agency, is offering grants of up to $30,000 per new propane school bus that replaces an older diesel bus [ View Article ] May 8, 2008, 08:32

More Than 400 Districts Choose Online Training
DALLAS (May 1, 2008) — By the end of this month, Texas school districts must complete mandatory school bus evacuation training for all students and teachers. The state enacted House Bill 3190 last September requiring the training to be conducted by each school district twice annually, or each semester, by Dec. 1 and May 31. “It appears to be going very well from what we can tell by talking to districts,” said Charlie Kennington, transportation director for Region 4 Educational Service Center in Houston. “Most have completed their first semester requirement and are aggressively going after the coming deadline. [ View Article ] May 8, 2008, 08:05

Environmentally-friendly school bus stops in Beaumont
Beaumont residents got a breath of clean air this morning from an unlikely source, a school bus. Michael L. Williams, chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas, made a stop in Beaumont along with a propane school bus as a part of a seven-city tour to promote the use of these buses. [ View Article ] May 8, 2008, 07:46

East Texas School Districts Consider Propane School Buses To Cut Fuel Cost
From the outside, a propane school bus may look like your typical yellow school bus, but propane school buses are what area school districts are considering buying to replace diesel school buses. [ View Article ] May 6, 2008, 07:50

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