The purpose of building a maintenance facility for brazos transit district (BTD) is to provide to service repair and store its growing fleet of buses and paratransit vehicles

The Federal Transit Administration awarded Brazos Transit District one million dollars on December 15, 2025, under Community Project Funding Congressionally Directed Spending (CFDA 20.534) to construct and equip a centralized maintenance facility serving the district's transit fleet.

The district is building a new maintenance facility between Lufkin and Nacogdoches, Texas, to service and maintain approximately forty-five transit vehicles operating across a service area spanning approximately ten east Texas counties. The facility will include a bus wash system, maintenance tools, equipment, and a fuel island to support fleet maintenance operations. The new centrally located facility replaces distributed maintenance operations, reducing employee travel time and mileage while improving fleet reliability, safety, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency for the district's fixed-route, demand-response, and ADA paratransit services.

Brazos Transit District, headquartered in Bryan, Texas, is the recipient. The obligated amount is one million dollars. Performance is scheduled for completion by May 20, 2027, with place of performance in Texas.

Activities

Brazos transit district (BTD) will be building a new maintenance facility between lufkin and nacogdoches that will service and maintain a fleet of approximately 45 vehicles. Our service area covers approximately 10 east texas counties that will utilize this maintenance facility as their primary facility. BTD is requesting funding to purchase a bus wash system maintenance tools and other vital equipment required to efficiently and effectively complete maintenance tasks and services to our fleet within our service area. Adding a bus wash system maintenance tools equipment and fuel island is required to efficiently and effectively complete maintenance tasks.

Expected outcomes

Build and maintain a facility that is more centrally located to the majority of our east texas fleet. A new centralized maintenance facility that incorporates sustainable features will help to fulfill maintenance requests and cut costs associated with mileage and employee travel times. The location of the facility gives the ability of BTD vehicles to quickly get back on route and provide service to neighboring communities.

Intended beneficiaries

This maintenance facility project will be able to better connect communities throughout the very rural east texas area that BTD serves. With a small bus shelter/common area this facility will serve as a rural hub for connecting transit services that are currently connecting in rural parking lots. BTD continues to grow with our communities and service needs. This facility with innovative construction can grow with our district and we will be able to not only connect our assets more effectively and efficiently but also our residents to an ever-expanding transit service in a very rural area.