Intermodality

This morning, the Transportation Policy Council is preparing to write a blank check. And places like Westbury, Cottage Grove, and Sunset Terrace may be paying for it.

The TPC, which consists of elected officials, engineers, and appointees representing the greater Houston region, is scheduled to vote on a resolution supporting a proposed agreement between the Texas […]

On Friday, METRO announced bike racks on buses. See Robin’s blog for more.

The hard part about putting transit where the people are is that there’s stuff there already. It’s easy to build new transportation infrastructure through open fields. It’s much trickier to do it in a built up city.

The good news is that it’s been done before. We have 150 years of experience in building rail transit […]

The bus stop we saw yesterday was in dire need of a makeover. This light rail station is doing a lot better. It has nice wide sidewalks leading to it, benches and shelter, and trains every 6 minutes for most of the day. But it turns out that some of the same things missing at […]

Today, the start of an occasional series of transportation makeovers. Our first subject: a bus stop. This is one of the two stops I can choose from for my bus ride home. What could we do to make it better?

(1) Destination signs. The sign on this bus stop reads “9 Gulfton.” The sign on the bus […]

photo: COLIN MCCONNELL/TORONTO STAR

One of the oddities of Houston transit is the difference between how Houstonians perceive their transit system and how the rest of the world perceives it. Over and over again, I hear the same criticisms of the Main Street Line: “It needs to go to the suburbs.” “It should be elevated.” “It […]

This post dates from April 1, 2007. It should be read in that context.

The “talking points” sheet is real. So is the inherent conflict of faulting a proposed mode of transportation for not meeting standards that your preferred mode doesn’t even come close to meeting. But I have no reason to believe there is […]