The Corpus Christi Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Transportation Policy Committee will vote Thursday on transit fare increases that have already been approved by the Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority and are set to take effect in January—but committee members won’t see a federally-required equity study warning the changes could disproportionately harm the system’s most vulnerable riders.
6 Investigates received a tip Monday and began reviewing documents and video from the transit authority’s October board meeting. In that video, CCRTA attorney John Bell told staff not to send the equity study to the CCMPO, then added the materials needed to be “discreet and clear.”
CCRTA staff also confirmed the CCMPO would only receive information on base fare changes, but not all of the other fare increases approved at that October meeting…