Here’s the “New METRO” at work on one of our cooler nights:
Power line poles are being replaced. The power shutdown is scheduled for tonight starting at 11:30pm. About 150 homes will be without electricity until 4am Wednesday.
“There’s seven construction segments on the north corridor,” said METRO contractor Joe Dooley. “Four have already had relocations and this is the fifth, so there are two more.”
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Meanwhile the League of United Latin American Citizens questions why the outage has to happen on such a cold night…. “I think they should postpone it at least until it gets a little bit warmer,” said Herlinda Garcia with LULAC.
METRO says their construction plans were made well in advance and any postponement would cost millions in delays. (Cynthia Cisneros, Rail construction mean no power for neighbors, KTRK-13 News)
The “New METRO” seems about as arrogant and clueless as ever.
