Herding The Fans Onto The Tram
Houston Texans spokesman Kevin Cooper is a little too honest with Rich Connelly:
After early struggles with horrendous traffic jams, the Houston Texans hit on a solution: Use Metro's Park & Ride lots. About 4,500 fans a game parked at satellite lots around the city and were bused in to Reliant Stadium.
It worked so well that the idea is being dropped. Dropped like an end-zone pass to a wide-open Jackie Smith in Super Bowl XIII (just needed to introduce some Cowboys heartache here).
Metro and the Texans will now Just Say No to Park & Rides. Instead, everybody without a parking pass will have to take light rail, and fend for themselves finding parking along the route.
Riders could pay a yet-to-be-determined price to park at the Fannin Street station -- and then pay $1 for a 30-second train ride -- but otherwise it's going to be a free-for-all.
Texans spokesman Kevin Cooper says, "The train route was put in from downtown to Reliant Stadium for a reason, and this is it."
Some of us never doubted the political reasons behind the placement of the light rail line. But it's nice to see confirmation every once in a while.
METRO's ridership figures must really be hurting if they've convinced the Texans management to herd their fans onto these inefficient trams. Bob McNair runs a pretty first-class operation, and I can't imagine his fans are going to be all that happy about the inconvenience.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/04/04 21:28 | Danger Train | Technorati
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