METRO meeting June 18 regarding halting of transit expansion

I'll be there to tell METRO that I want more rail, a high speed train to other cities, less polluting buses, and naked pictures of Bea Arthur!

 

Seriously the counties are robbing Metro blind with this nonsense. Citizens are paying those taxes for transportation. I wish I were in town because I would definitely be there.

 

The funny thing is how people don't vote YES on things that aren't directly affecting them. For example, most people will say: "What? A rail? Does it come my way? NO? OK. So I will vote against it because they're using my tax money."

Dudes, you gotta start somewhere.

Anyway, this belongs in the D&D.

 

You guys who go: Tell Metro to keep Homeland Security the **** off the bus lines.

 

if they spend money, put it into buses, perhaps even more limited-stop express buses -- don't piss money down the toilet trying to fit a train to a city that was designed for a car. Waste of money

 

how fast will these metro rails go? 2mph? THEN NO.

watching the damn rail go from medical center to UH downtown is painful. hell, skip some stops..make it where train A covers x amount of stops, train b covers the rest etc.

 

The question isn't if they should spend money on trains or buses.

The question is should we divert COH dollars to spend on road improvement projects in, say, Hedwig Villiage. Metro's contention is Hedwig Villiage receives far more of our tax dollars than they contribute.

 

If politicians like Tom Delay and John Culberson, plus the COH and the counties, didn't rob Metro of funds (and really, if COH residents didn't vote down rail the first time in the 80s), then the system would be much better. Houston had rails all over the place before it was ripped up and used as material for WWII. If done right, with things like elevated overpasses over busy streets, then it would work fine. It already has the second highest riders per mile.

 

i would luv to go, but why 6Pm?

 

Maybe their just planning for the future. Houston is a sprawling mess, very inefficient and costly.

 

Buses are a waste of money. If you knew anything about transit, you'd know that buses are less efficient than rail, carry less riders, and are far inferior.

Buses are wasting more of our taxpayer dollars than rail would, that is a fact.

 

Oh, and good to see some HAIFers here :grin:

 

Skyscrapercity and skyscraperpage are sites def worth checking out too.

 

have you ever been in a park n ride?

 

Houston already is what it is. We might have had a monorail system that made some sense but Bob and his Real Estate buddies ridiculed it to death (and Mayor Whitmire) so they could profit. The street car is an anachronism that has minimal effect over 500 square miles. Urban Land Institute studies show the maximum walking distance most pedestrians will go is 1500 feet (and I don't think they considered 100 degree heat and 60 days of rain a year). Draw a 1500 foot line around the (slow, cumbersome) street car and see what percentage of the city is effected.

Houston is a car town. Increasing the efficiency and safety of auto traffic makes the most sense. If politics really worked, our city would invest in natural gas powered electric generation and an electric car factory.

 

Do you really think a city can do that??? Making a switch to electric cars has to be done on a national scale. It is going to take a lot of money and support from the government to get car manufacturers to make that switch.

Also Houston is what it is? Everything changes over time, cities are not excluded. Adaptability is a part of life.