KPRC-2 reports that the heavy rains forced METRO’s light-rail “transit backbone” to shut down earlier today:
METRORail was also shut down between the University of Houston-Downtown and Wheeler stations because of high water.
Traffic was moving smoothly on the Southwest Freeway and the METRORail had reopened by 5 p.m.
That’s pretty much the northern half of the rail line.
Presumably, buses were dispatched to get stranded tram riders where they needed to go.
