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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]