KHOU-11’s Jason Whitely reports on METRO’s latest waste of money:
You likely never notice them driving by. Metal cabinets line the on-ramps to five Houston HOV lanes.
They’re part of a broken safety system in which METRO paid $6,000,000 for in 2005.
The metal cabinets used to have red and white arms that swung out to prevent cars from going the wrong way.
A little closer to the actual entrance to the HOV lane are guillotine type devices that cars drive through.
Nets, designed to catch cars, used to lower from them as another back-up measure to prevent wrong-way accidents. Not anymore.
The system just has not worked out.
Shocking!
Just yesterday, of course, our mayor told Chronicle reporter Matt Stiles that METRO is a wise steward of taxpayers’ money.
Because, you know, it’s wise stewardship to drop $6 million of taxpayers’ money on dysfunctional guillotine type devices for the HOV lanes.
In some alternate, not-world-class, universe.
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