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View Poll Results: Will Houston ever build a subway system?
Yes 23 9.06%
No 201 79.13%
Maybe 30 11.81%
Voters: 254. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-31-2012, 02:04 PM
 
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Subway? There is a reason that we don't have basements in Houston.
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Old 10-31-2012, 02:40 PM
 
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Subway? There is a reason that we don't have basements in Houston.
Exactly,
what's the point of this thread?
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Old 10-31-2012, 06:20 PM
 
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Better than I-45 365 times a year.
Commuter rail would be just fine.
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Old 10-31-2012, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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Commuter rail would be just fine.
Tax the counties surrounding Harris for the funds.
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Old 10-31-2012, 10:40 PM
 
Location: The Magnolia City
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Subway? There is a reason that we don't have basements in Houston.
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Exactly,
what's the point of this thread?
Clearly the OP is talking about heavy rail in general, and not just an actual subway.
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Old 10-31-2012, 10:56 PM
 
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Tax the counties surrounding Harris for the funds.
Why not, they use it it too. They use the HOV as well.
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Old 11-01-2012, 05:24 AM
 
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Funny how we get this post just as NY's subway gets totally flooded and shutdown by the hurricane. Isn't most of Houston in the flood zone?

Hell, the metro rail already costs so dang much a subway would bankrupt the whole city.
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Old 11-01-2012, 07:00 AM
 
Location: Waterworld
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Nah, we will never get adequate rail, not as long as the oil companies here have so much power with our politicians.
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Old 11-02-2012, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Richmond, TX
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To me, this is the ONE thing that Houston is lacking. Heck even my bankrupted island of Puerto Rico has a Mass Transit train paid by the Federal Government. If the San Juan Metro area got the Federal funds to build it with just 1.1 million residents to justify it.... I'm sure Houston could more than justify it. This is the 4th largest city in USA, c'mon. The mass transit should've been built 50 years ago in this city.
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Old 11-02-2012, 05:11 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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To me, this is the ONE thing that Houston is lacking. Heck even my bankrupted island of Puerto Rico has a Mass Transit train paid by the Federal Government. If the San Juan Metro area got the Federal funds to build it with just 1.1 million residents to justify it.... I'm sure Houston could more than justify it. This is the 4th largest city in USA, c'mon. The mass transit should've been built 50 years ago in this city.
Really? LOL I'm sure Claire Bruckheimer would rather her 2013 Denali from the Woodlands to her job Downtown than public transit. I mean, she can't even use her On Star on a train.
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