With continued windfall tax revenue flowing into Metro, one wonders why Metro can’t maintain its own bus stops/shelters, and provide a level of bus service that would actually benefit Harris County residents (I’d link to the illuminating comment, but Metro’s ill-functioning blog seems to be…ill-functioning. Scroll down to mizz_porkie2003’s comment posted on May 15, 2007 8:20 AM.)
As the Metro bus driver says, things were running rather smoothly until a “new management regime took over.”
Metro has to be stockpiling money for the upcoming boondoggle rail expansion, which will do nothing to improve transit options for most residents in Metro’s taxing jurisdiction. In fact, as we saw with the opening of the Main Street rail line, inflexible rail worsens transit options because Metro will slash bus routes to force riders onto the train.
