They have been a long time coming, but bike racks are finally here for METRO’s buses! METRO launched its bike racks on buses program Friday with a press conference and festival event at their headquarters. Woody Speer of BikeHouston and I were among the first riders to test our bikes in the new racks!
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Back in February, State Representative Robert Talton (R-Pasadena) introduced HB 1813 which calls for direct election of Houston METRO board members. Currently, METRO’s nine-member board is appointed by each of the local governments within its service area. As a result, 16 elected authorities –- the City of Houston, Harris County, and 14 smaller municipalities -– […]
Today’s Houston Chronicle includes a CTC OpEd about METRO’s University line. In it, we argue that placement of the University line will affect the whole city, and every Houstonian should weigh in; not just the ones on Richmond and Westpark:
Feb. 10, 2007, 7:13PM Off Track Countering Culberson’s view It’s time for lawmaker and all Houstonians to see […]
Three weeks ago, stakeholders for METRO’s Universities line gathered at St. Luke’s UMC. Houston Mayor Bill White told the enormous crowd that “we make our best decisions when we listen to each other,” and “this won’t be the end of the conversation.” Houston City Council Members Anne Clutterbuck, Ada Edwards, and Pam Holm have […]
Before each Tuesday meeting of the Commissioners’ Court, all the Harris County department heads gather for an agenda briefing on Monday. I sat in on it this morning and this item caught my attention:
1.a.3. Recommendation that the County Judge be authorized to execute transportation improvement agreements as part of the Metro Multi-Cities Program between the […]
Pictured above (L-R) are METRO President & CEO Frank Wilson, METRO Board Chairman David Wolff, Mayor Bill White, Congressman John Culberson, and Council Member Pam Holm. Council Member Anne Clutterbuck is not pictured.
Mayor Bill White, Congressman John Culberson, and three district City Council Members — Holm, Clutterbuck, and Edwards — hosted a public meeting regarding […]
METRO’s board met Thursday and attendance was astonishing. The board room was standing-room-only at 120, with another ~100 attendees in the lunch room to watch the proceedings on closed-circuit TV.
The meeting opened with public comments. Thirty-one of 47 speakers came to address which options METRO should consider in the Universities light rail corridor. Five […]
METRO is poised to begin the public planning process for the “Universities” east-west rail line. State representative Martha Wong and US representative John Culberson are trying to take a possible Richmond route off the table now, before the public planning process has even started. Houstonians who value effective transit must not let them.
METRO needs federal […]
At METRO’s August 18, 2005 board meeting, BikeHouston members Woody Spear and Jacqueline Friedman asked for an update on METRO’s agreement to install bike racks on buses. While bikes are allowed on METRORail (Guidelines and rules for cyclists) they don’t have a comparable program for buses. METRO has talked about it since 2001, agreed in […]
Wilson says METRO’s “operating ratio,” calculated as fare income divided by transit costs, is improving after five years of trending downward
