Michael Reed recently penned a fun column on Richmond-Westpark light rail for the West University Examiner. Here’s an excerpt:
We’re beginning to think the fellow with the starry eyes and all those yellow legal pads we encountered a couple of months back had the right idea about all of this.
While speaking at one of about 10,000 identical public meetings on possible routes, he advanced the theory that the light rail should be scrapped in favor of interconnected conveyor belts that Houstonians could merely step on and ride to their destinations.
We thought at the time it was a very futuristic approach — very Jetsons, in fact, and not nearly as cartoonish as a lot of what had been offered by most of the well-rehearsed partisans or any of the elected officials present.
We noticed, at the time, Mayor White stood transfixed at the podium, probably either scared he would miss something or, maybe, just plain scared. Of course, he could have been lost in childhood recollections of how George Jetson used to get sucked under by his own conveyance system on a weekly basis.
He was probably thinking the city could never absorb the lawsuits, especially with the Downtown Danger Train being successful in so many of its seek-and-destroy missions.
Readers will have to pardon us this self-referential moment, but we’re always amused when we see other writers using the “Danger Train” moniker.
Thanks to Banjo Jones for the heads up on the column.
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