Intermodality

On Friday, the Federal Railroad Administration comes to town with a high speed rail workshop.
Texas is surely one of the top five high speed rail prospects in the county. Houston, Austin, Dallas, Texas and San Antonio have 16 million people between them, all potentially within 2 hours of each other by high speed rail. That’s [...]

The Chronicle reports that an El Paso state representative, prodded by local rail opponents who can’t find any support within 700 miles of home, has attached an amendment to a bill that would effectively stop METRO’s entire light rail expansion program.
This amendment applies only to Houston, not to Dallas or Austin or San Antonio or [...]

On June 1, Metro will begin “Quickline” service along Bellaire from the light rail station at TMC Transit Center to just inside Beltway 8.
This is what I call “better bus” and what METRO once called “signature bus“: our local version of Los Angeles’ Metro Rapid: specially branded buses, using regular traffic lanes but [...]

The deal for the new soccer stadium appears to be coming together. But one fundamental problem remains: the stadium, as planned, will be a significant obstacle to traffic between Downtown and the East End. But there’s a way to fix that.
If you’re headed west on Harrisburg towards Downtown today, the street ends at Bastrop. There, [...]

Perhaps the most anticipated words in the world of rail transit are “full funding grant agreement:” the Federal Transit Authority’s promise to pay a share of a transit project. Two of Houston’s new rail lines have now moved tantalizing close to that milestone. As part of the federal budget process, the FTA releases a “Annual [...]