Does anyone see the irony in this:
METRO Responds to Chronicle Editorial
Feb. 2, 1006This morning, the Houston Chronicle ran a letter from METRO President and CEO Frank Wilson responding to a Jan. 29th editorial critical of METRO’s response to pedestrian fatalities. Some of Mr. Wilson’s comments were edited out of the letter. We would like you to see the letter in its entirety.
That’s rich!
Remember when Rep. John Culberson’s letter to the editor about Metro funding was (interestingly) edited? Since we ran Rep. Culberson’s full letter (no space constraints on blogHOUSTON, unlike Chron.com apparently), we’ll helpfully run Wilson’s complete letter in the extended entry.
For some reason I am reminded of banking industry loan failure rates.
The death of a passenger or pedestrian is certainly the darkest of days for any organization that offers public transportation.
I can assure you this has been an upsetting and somber time for METRO’s employees. We have spent the past week poring over evidence from the accident scene and interviewing witnesses, and on Friday, as promised, we turned over the results of our police investigation to the District Attorney’s office.
It would be putting it mildly to say I was livid upon learning that the bus operator wasn’t cooperating with our administrative investigation. We have since ordered him to cooperate with our internal investigation, or be fired, regardless of our findings.
My first response upon reading Edmund Kao’s letter on the front of your Sunday editorial section was sadness – sadness that we have left him with the impression that METRO doesn’t care about the death of his brother. It is troublingly and untrue. METRO is sorry for the loss of his brother just as we are sorry for the death of Domitila Le
