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Katy residents will wait for transit to Texas Medical Center
By AUDREY M. MARKS
Katy residents will have to wait a little longer than expected to take the county’s express transit service to the Texas Medical Center as Fort Bend County’s transportation department continues to look parking lots to house transit riders’ cars.
“We don't have a ballpark time yet but I feel comfortable saying it could be implemented within the next 90 days,” Paulette Shelton, director of public transportation for Fort Bend County, said in a telephone interview.
Shelton said they are still trying to find parking lots for the route along the Highway 90A corridor.
But for riders willing to drive to Sugar Land the first bus will leave Monday, Sept. 2 and the wait will be worth it.
Shelton said the county will be giving away a free work week of services running until Friday, Sept. 5. But starting Monday, Sept. 8 the free ride is over, and riders will pay $5 round trip.
While times have yet to be finalized by the Texas Medical Center, the county has previously estimated the first bus leaving at 4:40 a.m. and will run buses every 20 to 30 minutes until 7:30 a.m.
The evening shuttles will begin at 3:15 p.m. and run until 6:45 p.m.
The buses will be picking residents up at the University of Houston System Sugar Land parking lot, 14000University Blvd., and AMC First Colony movie theater, 3301 Town Centre Blvd. South
While the transit service will a trip to Texas Medical Center without making stops, the buses have four scheduled stops once they reach the medical center.
According to the county’s transportation office the stops include:
Main and Pressler, at the Metro Rail Station
Pressler across from the Cancer Prevention building, 1155 Pressler St.
Bertner at Bates
Bertner at Moursund
Ross Sterling Ave., under the UT Medical School Breezeway
“We are very excited about getting this service implemented and are happy to be providing this to our residents,” Shelton said in a phone interview.
In a July interview Joyce Camp, senior vice president of Texas Medical Center, said according to a survey of employees at the medical center 14,000 lived in Fort Bend County.
“We don't have a ballpark time yet but I feel comfortable saying it could be implemented within the next 90 days,” Paulette Shelton, director of public transportation for Fort Bend County, said in a telephone interview.
Shelton said they are still trying to find parking lots for the route along the Highway 90A corridor.
But for riders willing to drive to Sugar Land the first bus will leave Monday, Sept. 2 and the wait will be worth it.
Shelton said the county will be giving away a free work week of services running until Friday, Sept. 5. But starting Monday, Sept. 8 the free ride is over, and riders will pay $5 round trip.
While times have yet to be finalized by the Texas Medical Center, the county has previously estimated the first bus leaving at 4:40 a.m. and will run buses every 20 to 30 minutes until 7:30 a.m.
The evening shuttles will begin at 3:15 p.m. and run until 6:45 p.m.
The buses will be picking residents up at the University of Houston System Sugar Land parking lot, 14000University Blvd., and AMC First Colony movie theater, 3301 Town Centre Blvd. South
While the transit service will a trip to Texas Medical Center without making stops, the buses have four scheduled stops once they reach the medical center.
According to the county’s transportation office the stops include:
Main and Pressler, at the Metro Rail Station
Pressler across from the Cancer Prevention building, 1155 Pressler St.
Bertner at Bates
Bertner at Moursund
Ross Sterling Ave., under the UT Medical School Breezeway
“We are very excited about getting this service implemented and are happy to be providing this to our residents,” Shelton said in a phone interview.
In a July interview Joyce Camp, senior vice president of Texas Medical Center, said according to a survey of employees at the medical center 14,000 lived in Fort Bend County.
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