HOUSTON–Yesterday, METRO’s board of directors approved yet another modification to the controversy-embroiled University Line, moving the proposed rail line from Wheeler to Alabama amidst complaints by Third Ward residents. METRO officials lauded the decision as an example of how METRO works with rather than against the community in planning for Houston’s growing transit needs.
Categories: Houston · News · Transit
Tagged: alabama, federal transit agency, Houston, inner loop, light rail, mass transit, METRO, METRO Solutions, phase II, Third Ward, Transit, TSU, UH line, University Corridor, University Line, wheeler, Wheeler rail
SEATTLE–Sound Transit, a regional transit agency, comprising light rail and bus service throughout the Puget Sound announced plans to place another transit package before voters this fall, after a $38 billion roads and transit plan failed last year. This time, the agency says, the transit package would focus specifically on improving the fledgling light rail line currently under construction between downtown Seattle and Sea-Tac Intl. Airport (approx. 17 miles).
Crunch the numbers any way you like and they don’t look any better than last time around. Taxpayers, who according to slovenly pig Seattle mayor Greg Nickels would see an average tax increase of $69 per adult, would actually pay roughly $180,000 per person for 100,000 people to ride Seattle’s latest train transit disaster.
Categories: News · Seattle · Transit
Tagged: light rail, Link Light Rail, mass transit, Nickels, Puget Sound, raising taxes, Seattle, taxes, train, Transit
