Intermodality

Houston METRO Light Rail from NC3D.com on Vimeo.
The Overhead Wire has uncovered a video of visualizations of the new METRORail lines. The video shows, in order:

The Third Ward on the University Line.
Edloe Station (in Greenway Plaza) on the University Line.
Moody Park Station on the North Line.
MacGregor Park Station on the Southeast Line.
Lockwood Station on the [...]

Ad banners on the Houston Chronicle website are announcing the opening of the Katy Freeway managed lanes.
We’ve known the physical shape of these lanes for some time now: 2 lanes in each direction, with on/off ramps just outside 610, just inside BW, at Dairy Ashford, and at Highway 6, in addition to direct connector ramps [...]

Our latest update of the CTC map takes us into an alternate universe where Houston transit history unfolded differently.
In 1983, METRO (which had been formed 8 years earlier) proposed a $2.1 billion, 18.5 mile heavy rail system, using the same technology as BART, Washington METRO, and Atlanta’s MARTA. That plan was rejected by voters. But [...]