Transportation Whatnot

METRO’s board met Thursday and attendance was astonishing. The board room was standing-room-only at 120, with another ~100 attendees in the lunch room to watch the proceedings on closed-circuit TV. The meeting opened with public comments. Thirty-one of 47 speakers came to address which options METRO should consider in the Universities light rail corridor. Five [...]

METRO is poised to begin the public planning process for the “Universities” east-west rail line. State representative Martha Wong and US representative John Culberson are trying to take a possible Richmond route off the table now, before the public planning process has even started. Houstonians who value effective transit must not let them. METRO needs [...]