Panhandle Transit Groundbreaking

Panhandle Transit Groundbreaking

Panhandle Community Services (Panhandle Transit) Breaks Ground
on a new Transportation Facility

DETAILS:

Thursday, October 17^th, 2024, at 5:00, 10921 S. Coulter (a quarter mile south of the intersection of Sundown and Coulter on the Coulter side).  Panhandle Community Services will hold a groundbreaking celebration on the site where their new Transportation Facility is being built. Panhandle Community Services is a local 501C3 nonprofit and Community Action Agency that handles the transportation needs of the top 26 counties of Texas, stretching over 26,000 square miles. This program has been operating for 59 years since the inception of Panhandle Community Services and will be celebrating its 60^th anniversary in its new facility in 2025. 
CONFIRMED ATTENDEES AND SPEAKERS include Judge Rowdy Rhoades from Moore County, who will be speaking. Confirmed attendance will include Judge Cindy Irwin from Hutchinson County, Judge Dan Looten from Carson County, Judge Glass from Hansford County, and Judge Locke from Roberts County, along with Executive Director Magi York and Transportation Director Lylene Springer.   
The facility will make it possible to bring all maintenance and operations under one roof and allow maintenance, including preventable maintenance, to be performed in-house year-round. PCS has a fleet of 92 buses and drove 150,600 trips in 2023.

This rural county transportation service is a curb-to-curb, demand-response service available to passengers who request pick-ups and/or drop-offs 24 hours in advance by calling 800-800-6162. Based on availability, the service center will schedule the rides. Each week, neighbors are taken to medical appointments, work, college, and the grocery store. Transportation is vital to those taking dialysis and coming to Amarillo for cancer and other medical treatments.

QUOTE from Lylene Springer, Transportation Director: “This facility has been almost 15 years in the making. We are excited to see this finally come to fruition and believe it will continue to benefit the Panhandle in a great way.”

 ABOUT PCS: Headquartered in Amarillo, Texas, PCS has 12 service centers to assist the top of Texas. We are a Community Action Agency and work hard, along with our partners, to change lives and lead change while bridging the gap from poverty to self-sufficiency.

OUR MISSION is to work as a community leader and partner in the Texas Panhandle to change the lives of low-income people by bridging the gap from poverty to self-sufficiency.

COUNTIES SERVED INCLUDE: Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler