CCISD weighs closing 7 campuses amid $27.5M deficit<\/a><\/p>\nThe current facility, which services the entire city bus fleet, is decades old and in deteriorating condition. City and transit officials say replacing it is essential for meeting Corpus Christi\u2019s growing transportation needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a grand slam for Corpus Christi,\u201d said At-Large Councilman Roland Barrera, speaking about the funding that will replace the CCRTA\u2019s aging maintenance hub.<\/p>\n
Barrera, who served as chair of the CCRTA in the late 1990s, said securing this level of funding is rare.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s unprecedented. The RTA during times of hurricane they will help in the transportation of disadvantaged to be able to evacuate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
CCRTA Chairman Arthur Granado said the new facility will modernize maintenance operations and improve working conditions for employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s where all our buses, our whole fleet is maintained and all of them are serviced there. So all of them will be going to that maintenance facility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Granado said the rebuild has been needed for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s very old. It\u2019s outdated, it\u2019s antiquated. The rebuilding there costs millions of dollars just to keep it updated. And it’s a facility that’s basically exposed to the elements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added that the new building will be designed with employees\u2019 safety and comfort in mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood conducive environment to be able to work in our South Texas heat, which is very hot as we all know. So it’ll be air conditioned, great maintenance facility about 75,000 square feet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Barrera said the upgraded facility will also play a critical role during emergencies, giving workers\u2014and the vehicles they rely on\u2014the space and tools needed to respond quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey could house emergency vehicles in the time if we had a hurricane or something of that nature. And so that way they can be deployed very quickly. We can store them there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCRTA secured a $46M federal grant to replace its decades-old maintenance facility, adding safer workspaces, modern equipment and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-60622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}