Anne Linehan, Author at blogHOUSTON

Frank Wilson: The Main Street Line is irreplaceable

March 23, 2009 Anne Linehan

METRO’s very expensive blogger posts an excerpt from a trade magazine interview with Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson, where METRO’s CEO says: “Before there was a rail line on Main Street, Houston didn’t understand what rail

A tale of two transit projects

March 23, 2009 Anne Linehan

Cory Crow comments on the news that METRO will not receive “stimulus” funds for light rail, while Harris County has been allocated almost $200 million for the Grand Parkway: Metro has dithered, changed technology, changed

Great moments in Houston Public Works

March 22, 2009 Anne Linehan

City Disconnects Sprinklers, Threatens Day Care (KRPC-2): The owner of a Houston day care said city contractors dug up her fire sprinkler system and then the city threatened to shut her down for having no

Finally, Spring is here!

March 21, 2009 Anne Linehan

What a beautiful day it looks to be! Hope you’ll be out enjoying it. SUNDAY UPDATE: Still beautiful. Still outside. Hope you are, too!

Houston's fair housing ordinance

March 19, 2009 Anne Linehan

Local media is reporting the city is suing a homeowner in the first test of the city’s fair housing ordinance. Here’s the Chron’s story: The city of Houston on Tuesday filed its first criminal misdemeanor

Senate-candidate White tries to beef up his illegal immigration bonafides

March 15, 2009 Anne Linehan

Now that Mayor White wants to become Senator White, the “It’s the feds’ fault!” message he has cultivated for the past few years just won’t fly, so he’s having to add a bit of nuance.

When Georgia increased yellow light times, red light camera violations tanked

March 14, 2009 Anne Linehan

Via TheNewspaper.com: On January 1, a new Georgia law kicked in forcing a one-second increase in the duration of the yellow warning light at intersections with red light cameras. The result has been devastating for

CTC: HCTRA land development bad; METRO land development good

March 10, 2009 Anne Linehan

The CTC’s Robin Holzer, one of METRO’s biggest light rail cheerleaders, recently sent out a Grand Parkway action alert: When you pay tolls on the busy Westpark and Sam Houston toll roads, do you ever

Thieves hit Kingwood Park and Pillage; METRO's $16 million security system takes a picture

February 21, 2009 Anne Linehan

Yesterday Cory Crow highlighted a yet another great moment for METRO PD’s Chief Lambert: The Kingwood Park and Pillage was…pillaged: Commuters were in for a nasty surprise when they got off the bus at the

Channel 2 fixes another red light camera ticket error

February 19, 2009 Anne Linehan

When last we checked in with KPRC-2’s Ask Amy, she was helping a wrongly ticketed red light runner clear her name. At that time, we noted the moral of the story was to call local