Intermodality

John Culberson made his case against rail on Richmond with a commentary in the Chronicle this weekend. Let us read between the lines: Metro must keep its word on rail route Voters approved a Westpark line; not rail along Richmond Avenue By U.S. REP. JOHN CULBERSON If you follow the ongoing debate over rail on [...]

An urban rail transit line is about serving places where people want to go. A corridor is a string of such places — activity centers, neighborhoods, campuses — and it has different benefits and impacts in each one. Thus, the best way to evaluate METRO’s options for the University Line is place by place. Over [...]

This Tuesday, we got our first glimpse of what BRT will look like in the streets of Downtown Houston thanks to a short but interesting document (pdf) that METRO posted to their web site. North of Polk Street, the Southeast Line BRT vehicles will leave their reserved lanes and run in regular “diamond lanes,” shared [...]

There’s going to be a lot of University Line content in this blog for the next two months or so. Why? Because it’s the biggest dashed line left on this map (use this pdf for printing or better viewing, or click above for a larger jpg). Alignments have been chosen for the North, Southeast, Harrisburg, [...]