Intermodality

METRO released its Environmental Assessment for the Intermodal Terminal (formerly known as the Northern Intermodal Transit Center) last month. We now know a lot more about what METRO’s planning where BRT, LRT, and commuter rail meet just north of Downtown. Here is what we’ve learned:
1. It’s not a major transit center.
There will be METRO passengers [...]

It’s an inevitable part of life in Houston: every once in a while, the rain bands pile one on top of another, the rain keeps coming, the bayous rise, the streets flood. The morning commute is a shambles; people get to work late or not at all, and the lucky ones stay home marveling at [...]

The same day I took the bus to work, the bus and train to the opening of the (amazing) Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues installation at the Rice Gallery and the train home, the METRO board decided I was getting an unfair deal and voted to eliminate the day pass. Never mind that my “extra” [...]

In the early 1960s, the construction of I-45 along the western edge of Downtown literally destroyed a neighborhood. Freedman’s town — the oldest African-American neighborhood in Houston — was divided by the new freeway and its ramps, leaving the old business district to the east to be taken over by office buildings (the only survivor [...]