Today, METRO’s expensive blogger reported that METRO will “soon” be offering a new type of express bus service (“soon” meaning August) along three routes.
Christof Spieler had already covered this development (for free!) several days ago.
The development of express bus service is a welcome, overdue development in Houston (but will Yellow Cab allow a true Airport Express route eventually? As one local blogger likes to say, stay tuned).
We were amused by this bit of cheerleading from Spieler:
There’s been some concern that METRO’s focus on expanding rail might cause the bus system to be neglected. Until recently, METRO’s silence about the bus improvements promised in the 2003 referendum justified that concern. These announcements indicate otherwise, but they’re only a start.
Might cause? One’s head really has to be in the sand to ignore the significant cuts in bus service (dubbed “service improvements” by METRO) since the 2003 referendum, a referendum that promised a 50% increase in bus service. Three express routes and pretty silver paint for the buses that will run them don’t exactly negate all the bus service reductions that we’ve seen in recent years (except perhaps in the happy fun land known as METROpia!).
