Intermodality

Today, the METRO board narrowed 50 different alternative routes for the University Line: three in the east and three in the west.
So where does this leave us?
First of all, today’s vote was a sign that the process worked. Of the six options now only the table, only three were along those proposed by METRO in [...]

The third entry on the Gulf Coast Institute’s blog makes an important distinction:
…transportation researchers are supporting much more attention to “access,” or the ability to interact, as a different goal from “mobility,” or the ability to travel.
In Houston, we’ve always thought mainly about mobility. Here’s an HGAC map from 1989 (there’s a collection of them [...]

The Chronicle has an excellent article today on Wallis, TX, population 1,300, and what changes are in store for it as Houston suburbs expand westward:
“I would say we’re mostly a bedroom community,” Salazar said. “Most people think the future of Wallis is in State Highway 36’s hands but, quite frankly, I believe it is really [...]

I just noted that Houston has now completed 105 miles of HOV lanes.
Here’s the punch line: we aren’t going to build any more.
There was another HOV lane planned, along Westpark from 610 to Beltway 8. This was the corridor where METRO has planned heavy rail in 1983 and monorail in 1991. After Mayor Bob Lanier [...]

The Chronicle noted recently that the last remaining section of the Southwest Freeway reconstruction — an HOV ramp off of Milam — had opened, completing a 115-mile HOV lane system.
The first HOV lane in Houston opened on I-45 north in 1979. It was a temporary facility, separated from other traffic with plastic pylons. The first [...]

I spotted this in Midtown recently.
There’s a lot to say about the Trans-Texas Corridor. Much of it has been said in our forums and in the many anti-TTC websites (Texas Toll Party, Corridor Watch). This is a huge project that will have huge impacts on Texas, and I cannot do the topic justice in a [...]