Trinity Metro FY2027 Budget: $204.5M Spending, $147.8M Sales Tax, TEXRail Extension Ahead

TEXRail-style passenger train on tracks representing Trinity Metro FY2027 budget and rail extension

FORT WORTH, Trinity Metro’s board approved a fiscal year 2027 budget of about $204.5 million in spending on Monday around Sept. 22, 2026, cutting roughly $17.8 million from the FY2026 adopted plan while still advancing a Trinity Railway Express double-track project and a 2.1-mile TEXRail extension into the Near Southside/Medical District with a Mistletoe Boulevard … Read more

Trinity Metro FY2026 Budget: $203.3M Revenue, Fort Worth Sales Tax $118.9M

Trinity Metro bus stop FY2026 budget

FORT WORTH, Trinity Metro’s adopted Fiscal Year 2026 operating budget plans $203.3 million in operating revenue and $174.1 million in operating expenses, with sales-tax receipts covering about 59% of that revenue base, according to the agency’s FY26 Budget Book. Fort Worth sales-tax revenue alone is budgeted at $118.9 million. Combined sales-tax contributions from Grapevine and … Read more

DCTA FY2026 Budget: $54.3M Operations, $41M Sales Tax From Member Cities

Denton County Transportation Authority transit budget and member-city sales tax

LEWISVILLE , The Denton County Transportation Authority’s adopted Fiscal Year 2026 Operating and Capital Budget puts $54,251,832 toward operations and $26,062,345 toward capital, with sales tax budgeted at $41 million from the half-cent collected in member cities Denton, Highland Village, and Lewisville. That sales-tax line is the largest single revenue source in the book. DCTA … Read more