Intermodality

We’re trying something new this year: the first CTC calendar. Every month has a Houston transportation photo (this year, they’re mine; if we do this again we’ll ask for submissions) and a transportation fact to go with it. Here’s September:

and a detail:

To get your copy, go to the CTC cafepress store. While you’re there, you [...]

The opponents of rail on Richmond made it clear: John Culberson is their man
in Congress. They applauded him at his civic forum, they launched their
website with his press conference, and they put up yard signs saying “Thank
God for John Culberson.”
That makes perfect sense. Culberson has made it clear that he opposes rail
on Richmond. And he [...]

The most important single destination on the University Line is Greenway Plaza: the 5th largest activity center in Houston, with 65,000 jobs in the Greenway Plaza complex itself and in the other office buildings clustered around it. Serving Greenway well is key to making urban transit work in Houston.
Here’s a great aerial view, courtesy of [...]

Traveling inbound on the Southwest Freeway, one notices an obvious change at Shepherd: the frontage roads disappear, residential neighborhoods surround the freeway. METRO’s University Line will encounter the same thing. This is an older and denser part of the city. That means there’s less space for tracks, but it also means there’s more potential ridership.
So [...]

According to METRO surveys, 40% of the people riding the Main Street light rail line weren’t riding buses before. That’s one of the more interesting tidbits from Frank Wilson’s State of Metro Address last month (it’s online here, but it seems to work in Internet Explorer on Windows only). Some people may be startled. I’m [...]

I played talking head for a Channel 2 newscast Sunday night. The topic: an HOV lane on I-45 between FM 1960 and The Woodlands, built 4 years ago but never opened. I didn’t know about it until the reporter called. But unfortunately I’m not surprised. The hang-up here seems to be the kind of bureaucratic [...]