METRO abandons next phase of Bus Rapid Train Plan

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Ай бұрын

Before the pandemic, the idea of METRO’s “Bus Rapid Transit” was the cornerstone of the public transportation agency’s future plans.
But this week, METRO, under new, seemingly more fiscally responsible leadership, shelved plans to build the next leg of the “BRT” line.
The University Line is being shelved after the Silver Line, the proof-of-concept line that opened along North Post Oak, near the Galleria, has failed to attract more than 90% of the riders that were promised.

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@HTX.167 Ай бұрын

Should have made it a Rail line

@AngelPerez-ft8yl Ай бұрын

Exactly it would have gotten more riders that way

@HTX.167 Ай бұрын

@@AngelPerez-ft8yl Thank you we are on the same page here and that’s what the voters wanted👏

@verticegirferd5069 Ай бұрын

No. Hardly anyone rides metro rail

@cxa340 Ай бұрын

Would not have made a difference - the ridership is low because there is very little demand in that area to go north/south past the galleria and poor connectivity for park and ride options. BRT is not just cheaper than rail, it is more adaptable (rail cannot run express), but metro spent all this money to connect two small transit centers with no demand to go between them.

@diyboomboxesintexas2805 Ай бұрын

You have apparently never been in the medical center on the afternoon. The metro train is packed with riders@verticegirferd5069

@Jonas-nf2bc Ай бұрын

Houston is the MOST car dependent city in North America. I have a car and a bike and I still catch the bus to the airport. Quite responsive and consistent. However, the layout of Houston doesn’t encourage people to catch the bus when you live in Galleria but work in Tomball. Austin’s and Dallas bus systems go into neighboring cities. The Metro doesn’t take you to The Woodlands, Sugarland, Katy or Pasadena. That’s one of the problems. Not everyone lives in Houston.

@CreightonRabs Ай бұрын

The problem is that most of the neighboring cities are either outside of Harris County (Woodlands, Sugarland) or do not authorize the required sales taxes to become part of Metro (Pasadena).

@damagecontroller8637 Ай бұрын

Wonder why metro doesn't have routes outside some areas. Like humble hummm

@CreightonRabs Ай бұрын

Humble probably needs to approve the required sales tax increase to become part of METRO.

@LAQIII Ай бұрын

If you would add MetroRail in the same area, you would have more ridership.. it will bring more interest, MetroRail has to be the main factor. Houstonian’s want to get to their destinations quicker… time is at the essence..

@HTX.167 Ай бұрын

Exactly!!!!!

@verticegirferd5069 Ай бұрын

NO ONE RIDES THE RAIL OR THE BUS!!!!

@cxa340 Ай бұрын

Rail would make no difference - people do not make the choice to ride rail over brt, especially when rail takes longer between trains than brt between buses. There is just no demand for a line like this that connects to transit stations. We would do better to focus on expanding the existing rail lines, connecting to Hobby, and pushing brt/rail west

@LAQIII Ай бұрын

@@verticegirferd5069 I believe the reason is, you aren't going to the good places without MetroRail Service.. Galleria, Airpots & Memorial City

@LAQIII Ай бұрын

@@cxa340 all they would need to do is sync the Bus time with the MetroRail time & ridership would be better, used to live in the Bay Area (S.F.) & that's how BART (Train) MUNI (Bus) are sync exactly

@billballeza377 Ай бұрын

Everyone knew this Galleria line would not have many riders, but they went with it anyway.

@youtubeguy9316 Ай бұрын

People not being in office buildings for 4 years now is why, the employees of buildings. People don’t want to go to back to office spaces so it’s less staff and so less blue collar workers to pay for the buses. Covid caused a lot of this

@verticegirferd5069 Ай бұрын

Everyone I know said that was a big mistake in the Galleria. Totally wasted our tax dollars. Thanks Metro. Metro is Totally tone deaf !!!!!!!!

@felixwang26 Ай бұрын

The decision makers need to make decisions based on reality

@xII_EU_IIx Ай бұрын

its not because people rode the silver line, people were not paying for the fare and was burning money

@TX.SpaceCowboy 10 күн бұрын

Why they put it in this area makes no sense at all. Why put it outside the loop in a rich area? Connect the Heights to NRG, West University to East End, Kashmere Gardens to UH to begin with.

@gasparma2316 Ай бұрын

They should have expanded outward and make it more efficient

@FilthyRichTV. Ай бұрын

Ayeee this my favorite place, give it some time people will ride and use the bus but at this moment most people don’t have jobs close to the area so they have to drive a car but soon more jobs will come and this place will provide more opportunities

@verticegirferd5069 Ай бұрын

@gabegardner94 Ай бұрын

Metro sucks so bad

@viacheslavglukhov8188 Ай бұрын

Metro in Houston is the biggest waste of taxpayers' money City needs to get audited by fed . Lots of misuse of funds and lots of wasted projects like Metro as an example