Marc Campos has a bit of fun today with Mayor White and Metro:
In yesterday’s Chron, there was a story about Houston’s Mayor Bill White – while bike riding – running across illegal trash dumpers. The Mayor approached the dumpers, police were called in, and the dumb dumpers were “hauled” (awwww) off to jail. Way to go Mayor. Don’t be surprised to see da Mayor pull up in a Safe Clear tow truck and help you change a flat tire if you happen to get a blow-out on a city freeway. Pity the poor downtown pedestrian that gets body slammed and a jaywalking ticket by da Mayor during the lunch hour.
Rumor has it that the METRO Credibility Task Force will be sweetening the bus rapid transit (BRT) system for the shafted communities. BRT, which is a bus in train wardrobe, will have their bus drivers, errr, engineers, announce “all aboard” when the bus, errr, train is ready to depart. In addition, the “engineers” will all be required to wear those “locomotive engineer” hats. That ought to appease the chumped voters.
The METRO Credibility Task Force! Well, METRO does excel at creating Task Forces. And Laurence Simon points out another Task Force possibility for METRO.
