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In January, Tom Bazan filed a TxPIA request with Metro for the FY2007 report. When he made this request, he informed Metro that he was unlikely to be as patient this year as he was

Last week Metro CEO Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson participated in an online chat. I had the same experience as a commenter on Metro’s blog — unable to participate, showing no users online — but apparently

You may know that Metro has selected Washington Group International as the “design/build” contractor for the Phase 2 light rail expansion. Back in 2006, WGI submitted a proposal to Metro that suggested (among many other

Finally! A Metro service improvement than might actually be considered an improvement: METRO’s August service changes include 14 more local trips on routes that include the 1 Hospital and 85 Antoine, and one new commuter

Since 2000, Metro has been dangling the promise of bike racks on buses before Houston’s biking community, but never following through. Metro CEO Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson said last year that there was too little

We’re engaged in a bit of spring cleaning, which means tossing out old links and stories that never managed to get full-blown posts. I couldn’t just trash a couple of transit-related March items, though, so

Rad Sallee reports that our local quasi-governmental transit agency is at it again: Four Near Northside residents pleaded with the Metro board Thursday not to leave them in limbo, as one put it, about its

The Chronicle‘s Rad Sallee reported Monday that METRO continues to stonewall the newspaper’s request for information on land acquisition: The Metropolitan Transit Authority has asked the state attorney general whether it must grant a Houston

Last week you’ll recall METRO CEO Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson stated that the government agency operates “in a completely transparent manner.” So, let’s check in on that transparency. Rad Sallee writes this in today’s Chronicle,