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Old 06-27-2012, 08:33 PM
 
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Maybe in the future, yall will have rail access to your airports.
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Old 07-01-2012, 05:50 PM
 
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light rail is a glorified bus with no tires. Except that it is much more expensive. I see no difference in stealing a lane from a current road and dedicating it to a bus instead of light rail. Sure would save a lot of money.
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Old 07-01-2012, 07:16 PM
 
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Not all Park and Ride facilities are directly adjacent to freeways or serve the Park and Ride buses exclusively. I live near the Gessner Park and Ride which is adjacent only to the Westpark Tollway. The single express route that serves it comes from the Westchase Park and Ride, itself adjacent to the Sam Houston Tollway
Ok, freeways and tollways. Point was, they are next to major highways.
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Old 07-01-2012, 08:16 PM
 
Location: Westbury
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light rail is a glorified bus with no tires. Except that it is much more expensive. I see no difference in stealing a lane from a current road and dedicating it to a bus instead of light rail. Sure would save a lot of money.
except it is a lot more efficient to use a train than the amount of buses one would need to transport the same amount of people
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Old 07-01-2012, 10:19 PM
 
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except it is a lot more efficient to use a train than the amount of buses one would need to transport the same amount of people
hmmm.... if the train were full or nearly full, I'd have to agree with you, but the times that I have been able to see our current light rail in action, they were not very full.
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Old 07-01-2012, 10:30 PM
 
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light rail is a glorified bus with no tires. Except that it is much more expensive. I see no difference in stealing a lane from a current road and dedicating it to a bus instead of light rail. Sure would save a lot of money.
Exactly. Transmilenio.

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Old 07-01-2012, 11:19 PM
 
Location: Hell's Kitchen, NYC
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hmmm.... if the train were full or nearly full, I'd have to agree with you, but the times that I have been able to see our current light rail in action, they were not very full.
Which is exactly why Houston has the second highest daily boardings per a mile of any light-rail system in the country, behind Boston of all places, says the person who has actually ridden the "toy train."

Pretty impressive for a city of this density.
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Old 07-03-2012, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Houston
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hmmm.... if the train were full or nearly full, I'd have to agree with you, but the times that I have been able to see our current light rail in action, they were not very full.
You sometimes riders kill me, take it from people who ride both the bus and the rails on a dailiy, I remeber what getting down main street was like before the rails(never again) , ask the doc in the medical center if they prefer a road or the rail, trust me catch the rails in the morning or lunch or evening and there is barely room to stand hell there have been times I have decided to wait for the next one because of the sheer size of the crowd and thats the twin one they hook up of heavy flow.. Like I said you everyonce in a while riders kills me when you try to tell eveyday riders about what houston needs when it comes to mass trainst
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Old 07-03-2012, 10:01 AM
 
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The "poor folk" argument doesn't wash with Park n Rides, which have fares around $4 each way and don't get you around the burbs but simply dump you into a big parking lot you pretty much need a car to reach.

And there are Park n Rides in that general area already. Every Park n Ride is adjacent to a freeway so I kinda doubt there was ever a proposal to put one on Steubner @ 1960.
The agent who sold us our house in 1998 was very proud of her participation in the effort to stop a park and ride here. She relayed to story in detail, regularly, to anyone who would listen.

We lived here 30 years ago when the decision was made to put in contra flow lanes. Everyone joked that the lane would be marked off with Folger's cans in the morning and Maxwell House in the evening. A truck pulled a trailer with a person sitting very close to the ground while putting out the cones to separate the lane.

The first bus in the north came to a church on 1960 near Northgate golf club. DH was one of the few people on it. That night, I had to go to Main and Elgin to bring him home because the bus did not show up. Our neighbor and friend, who had just moved down from Chicago to work for Metro, or whatever they called it in the formative stages, called to see how it went. He followed the bus route for the next week just to make sure no one was stranded. There was a park and ride at the church for years.

It took a while, but soon there was more than a few busses.

NIMBY people still complain about mass transit it Houston. I read it on CD frequently.
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