Intermodality

METRO is pointing out that their new fare proposal does not increase the base fare: Under the proposed fare structure, the base fare of $1 remains the same. The problem is that a lot of METRO riders don’t pay the base fare. According to METRO’s own numbers, 53% of boardings are with daily, weekly, monthly, [...]

11 years ago, I spent a summer in London. I lived in Earl’s Court and worked at South Bank University. To get to work, of course, I took the Tube. And to pay for my Tube travel I bought a weekly pass. It was an obvious choice: I’d spend at least 2 pounds a day [...]

As I said earlier, the new fare system METRO will be voting on this Thursday really consists of two parts: new technology and a new fare structure. And while it makes sense to change fare structure at the same time as changing technology, neither is dependent on the other. And whatever one may think of [...]

METRO tells the Chronicle that a new fare structure is in the works. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t tell everything and there’s no information on the METRO web site yet [UPDATE: there is now: letter and fact sheet, PDF presentation. But there are still unanswered questions.]. [UPDATE: I just talked to METRO (I had contacted them [...]

We don’t have zoning in Houston, right? A Chronicle article this weekend points out otherwise. There’s one land use that the City of Houston does mandate: parking. The city has ordinances that require new or remodeled buildings to have a certain number of parking spaces. For stores, that’s 4 spaces for every 1000 square feet [...]