Intermodality

This is the beautiful Hudson River Valley, and on the left is Dia Beacon, one of the most amazing museums I have ever been to. And, yes, there’s a Metro-North train. But the train is not what’s important; it’s just a way to get here to go home or go to the museum or enjoy […]

Rep. John Culberson had an opinion piece in this Sunday’s Chronicle laying out his vision of Houston transit. His basic point seems to be that urban light rail is ineffective, and that the answer is commuter rail. Culberson claims:

The most important lesson from the transit experiment is that light rail cannot survive without commuter rail, […]

Charles Kuffner of Off the Kuff is running a series of pieces from guest contributors called “looking ahead to 2008.” Today is my turn:

Whoever wins these county races will have an extraordinary budget - and thus an extraordinary amount of power - to shape how Houston grows. The fact that the county does not get […]

If you want to see some really unhappy people, check out Rad Sallee’s latest column in the Chronicle. In it, readers complain about the recent re-timing of Downtown traffic lights. As Rad notes:

Reader response is running about 4-to-1 against the new downtown stoplight timing. Even granting that people are more likely to speak up when […]