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El Paso County, under Texas Transportation Code Chapter 458, serves as a rural transit district (RTD) for rural El Paso County and therefore receives state funding for rural transit services. The RTD duties are performed through the El Paso County transit department and El Paso Area Transportation Services (EPATS). EPATS is a local government corporation that is a partnership between the County, Horizon City, the City of San Elizario, and Village of Vinton. The City of El Paso Mass Transit Department (known as Sun Metro) is funded to serve the El Paso urbanized area (UZA) in Texas; the service area of Sun Metro is the municipal boundary. The governing body of El Paso County is the County Commissioners Court. The governing body of EPATS is the EPATS board.

EPATS provides rural bus service that covers Anthony, Canutillo, Vinton, and Westway in the northwest; Montana Vista in the east; Agua Dulce, Clint, Fabens, Horizon City, San Elizario, Socorro, Sparks, and Tornillo in the southeast; and other, unincorporated areas of the county. These communities lie outside the city limits of El Paso; all except Fabens and Tornillo are part of the El Paso UZA. EPATS operates six fixed routes via a contractor while Sun Metro operates the seventh route, Route 84.

Riders can access Amtrak rail service, Greyhound, El Paso−Los Angeles Limousine, Tornado Bus Company, and Autobuses Los Paisanos in downtown El Paso. In addition, El Paso County Transit contracts with Enterprise to operate a vanpool program and partners with the New Mexico Department of Transportation providing a park-and-ride service as a regional bus route. All Aboard America is contracted to operate the park-and-ride route. The route connects Las Cruces, New Mexico, to downtown El Paso.

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Projects in FY2024-2028