The METRO promise: We'll start in June!

Today's METRO consent presentation at City Council brought its usual set of happy and angry people.  Even former council member Martha Wong made an appearance.  The Greenway High Rise resident voiced her concerns about stray currents and other worries to the governing body she used to serve on.

Other highlights? Two hours of question and answer over all the METRO Solutions stuff you heard before.  What else got done in front of the Council Committee? The promise of one more meeting! Yea!  So, we got two hours down, there's another two hours to go.  Only after that, will the consent agenda go to the full City Council for a vote.

METRO can't start building the new light rail lines until then.  It's targetting a June start date, will City Council play along? We shall see...

Comments

[Royko]

This is not logical.

The whole city was in a tizzy over a mid-rise residential building in a snotty neighborhood, where the city had to perform traffic impact studies to restrict developers.

Now, METREAUX is proposing to decimate FIVE major Houston thoroughfares with boondoggle urban rail, just like they accomplished with the DANGER TRAIN on MAIN, and not a whimper from the City as to wanting to study the massive, negative impacts to mobility (yes, boys and girls, there are 3+ million cars in Harris County that likely all will be impeded by the urban rail projects). Not to mention the similar problems generated by cumulative stray current corrossion damage to the 66-inch water lines which run in these corridors (even though METREAUX clains everything is beautiful, a lawsuit was just filed concerning the damage to building foundations and infastructure in the Texas Medical Center [Houston's Crown Jewels)

It is sad that the urban rail robber barons at METREAUX will be allowed to further abuse the poor, minority, elderly, and handicapped bus transit dependent riders throughout the service area while they squander more of the "Windfall" sales tax revenue playing Monopoly.