An Hour From Downtown To Reliant?
Here's an interesting letter in the Comical:
I supported the Metropolitan Transit Authority's light-rail system. But after last night, I'll stick with the buses that average around 50 mph instead of the 13 mph that rail (sometimes) gets. I rode the train to the rodeo and it took nearly an hour to get from Reliant Stadium back downtown. I wished I had just taken the bus.I have a feeling quite a few people feel this way. Unfortunately, the vote was scheduled before there was a working (if that's not a stretch) system to evaluate. Pretty convenient, huh?Chris Davison, Jersey Village
Unfortunately, many of us believe that as paid ridership on the choo-choo turns out to have been wildly overestimated by METRO, the mass transit budget will suffer, and in particular bus service will suffer cutbacks. So the bolded part above may not even be an effective option at some point. But we'll have a "world-class" choo-choo!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/06/04 10:29 | Danger Train | Technorati
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