Tex. Transportation Code § 455.001: DEPARTMENT DUTIES REGARDING MASS TRANSPORTATION.

The Texas Department of Transportation shall:

(1) encourage, foster, and assist in developing intracity and intercity public and mass transportation;

(2) encourage the establishment of rapid transit and other transportation media;

(3) assist any political subdivision of this state to obtain federal aid to establish or maintain a public or mass transportation system;

(4) develop and maintain a comprehensive master plan for public and mass transportation development; and

(5) conduct hearings and make investigations to determine the location, type of construction, and cost to the state or its political subdivisions of a public mass transportation system owned, operated, or wholly or partly directly financed by the state.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.