Students on three campuses this week got ready to ride METRO by signing up for a METRO Q® Fare Card right on their campus. METRO's revenue team visited Texas Woman's University , HCC Coleman , HCC Central and HCC Southeast , issuing almost... Read More...

The METRO Board of Directors today approved service changes that will continue three routes that had originally been slated for discontinuation: 30 Clinton , 48 Navigation (Pleasantville branch) and 49 Chimney Rock . These three routes generated intense... Read More...

Last night, in the beautiful Gerald D. Hines building at 811 Main, where the lobby sports tan leather sofas and dramatic white orchids, the Houston Downtown Management District hosted a competition featuring designs from five award-winning architectural... Read More...

Check out the latest construction on the North Line, which will consist of eight stations from UH Downtown to the Northline Transit Center. The photos posted above show the progress we've made so far on the North Line extension, which extends our... Read More...

It's a dilemma transit agencies nationwide are facing: how to accommodate wider waistlines while keeping the same number of seats to maintain capacity. In some cases, agencies have redesigned the middle seat to only appear larger. Americans growing... Read More...

The new president of the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) says Houston's a great place to be now - but points out that Houston will double in size by 2050. That means we need to improve our infrastructure. "I'd like GHP to advocate strongly... Read More...

Even though last weekend's Houston Texans game was disappointing, the team's first playoff game on Jan. 7 was good news for METRO and our riders. On that home game day, all patrons rode free, courtesy of Reliant . Reliant has partnered with METRO,... Read More...

If you are one of the thousands of commuters navigating Houston's highways during drive times, you probably hate Houston traffic as much as I do. Now, METRO is making it easier to zip through congested freeway lanes. For a fee, you can drive in the... Read More...

(Today's guest post was written by Margaret O'Brien-Molina, senior media specialist). It was an average morning. I was about to climb the scaffolding to the top of the new elevated light-rail track just north of UH Downtown when I asked METRO's... Read More...

On Monday, Jan. 16, we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day , a day to commemorate civil rights leader King, who fought against segregation on public transit and lobbied for equality. METRO will run regular weekday service on our buses and trains. Our... Read More...