Intermodality

While the Universities corridor has been in the news recently, METRO is moving ahead on other transit corridors as well. In the next two weeks METRO will hold public meetings on the North and Southeast corridors. Unlike the Universities Corridor, for which an Alternatives Analysis study has not yet begun, studies were done for these [...]

Rad Salee of the Chronicle reports on the 3+hour METRO board meeting yesterday:

The unofficial score was eight opposed to rail on Richmond, four in favor and 16 wanting the Metropolitan Transit Authority to consider all its options, talk with a lot of people and make a wise decision.

That’s a good score (count me as one [...]

I imagine we’ll see a lot of press coverage on Richmond rail in the next few days; more than 40 people are signed up to speak to the METRO board tomorrow, and rail opponents are holding a protest on Richmond this morning.

But we haven’t been seeing a whole lot of good information. The METRO Solutions [...]

Here’s Robin on what Martha Wong and John Culberson are up to on the Richmond rail line.
As always, discussion in the forums.

There are two way to build transit: either you build where the people are, or you build where the space is. The latter is politically and technically easier. The former way is the way to get ridership.
Case in point: Houston’s Main Street light rail line. It’s extraordinarily successful: the current ridership of 40,000 a day [...]

The METRO Solutions LRT/BRT/commuter rail system will have several important transfer points: LRT to LRT at Wheeler, LRT to BRT near the Galleria, LRT to BRT at the University of Houston, LRT to BRT near 290 and 610, and LRT/BRT/Commuter rail Downtown. The latter is by far the most important, and also the trickiest. [...]

This is Grand Central Terminal, in New York City. It’s a commuter rail station with an attached subway station and one of the most spectacular interior spaces in the world. This photo shows how big it is. It doesn’t show the vaulted ceiling, painted with the the constellations, with major stars lit with individual light [...]