METRO Matters: Decision Makers Offer Inside Scoop

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gc21 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:40:06 GMT

I congratulate METRO on better and more avenues of communication with the public over the past year. The blog, chats, and talk show are all informative. I watched the first episode of METRO Matters, and it is much more useful than the MTTV short segments.

Perhaps I missed it, but maybe each episode should have a date shown so that the topics discussed in future archived episodes can be put in the context of the time that it was recorded.

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Realistic — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:48:00 GMT

Seriously Royko... give it a rest.

Gas prices are up. Houston is overcrowded. We need multiple types of transit opportunities. If you feel that "rubber tire" solutions are best, then put your money where your mouth is and spend your dollars on that.

Do I think the rail downtown was the best use or need for Houston? No. Do I want them to make a commuter rail and get some places connected to feed into the current system? Yes.

We need multiple options for transit INCLUDING rail to suffice the public and the ever growing population.

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DominicMazoch — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:24:58 GMT

Where are the usual people who populate this blog? Spring break?

Now back to the thread. How much is one of these 15 min shows going to cost?

The problem I see with this is that Houston, beleive it or not, has a very high percentage of non-cable homes, compared to the rest of the nation. METRO is missing out on a lot of people.

Anyway, I DON'T have cable because from what I see, a made for cable TV show has more comm. I don't want to see ANOTHER ad.ercials per time unit than commercial TV

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DominicMazoch — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:43:27 GMT

P&R:

OK, it shoews how litttle cable I watch. Did not ealize Ch 16 was the "public access" channel! And it has no commercials.

BTW, don't they run METRO board meetings on this platform while the meeting is going on?

Anyway, I won't get cable just for 16!

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DominicMazoch — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:26:46 GMT

How about some things which matters:

1. How to use Q.

2. How to ride.

3. Transit Civility.

4. Transit Safety.

5. Pull rope before your stop.

6. Put trash in its place. (see last thread.)

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Royko — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:55:56 GMT

Mr. Collins,

Thank you for your suggestions.

I will continue to insist that METREAUX honor the promise it made to the poor, minority, elderly, and handicapped BUS transit dependent riders that they would INCREASE critical bus service by 50%.

Under the Federal Law, from 1964, any transit agency who wanted wasteful urban rail had to demonstrate to the FTA that they would not slash bus service in favor of urban rail.

METREAUX has failed to maintain the level of bus service prior to the 2003 referendum vote for the "Solutions" scheme.

I did not make the "broken" promise, nor do I have the ability to force METREAUX to honor the promulgated federal rules.

All I can do is continue to enter into the record the facts that document METREAUX is shortchanging Houstonians while the Urban Rail Robber Barons play Monopoly with an endless geyser of sales tax revenue.

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Richmond Rider — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:34:37 GMT

@Royko - DON'T give it a rest. You have just as much right as everyone else to rant (or rave). Change (if any) is usually not obtained by resting on one's laurels.

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Royko — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:37:44 GMT

Mr. Collins,

"Who cares about what happened in the past? That was then and this is now."

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Houston tore up the tram tracks from the obsolete urban rail five decades ago. But, with two generations now lost to PC-indoctrination by Socialists and institutionalized Liberalism, here we go again. This time the taxpayers will pay for the boondoggle run by 3rd-world-class bureaucrats.

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Mary Sit — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:09:44 GMT

HTV Houston Television (the city's cable channel) said it would air selected episodes that emphasize "how-to" primers with lots of action video to illustrate or demonstrate certain things.

However, Houston MediaSource, Houston's public access channel, will air all episodes of METRO Matters, scheduling each episode up to 12 times/30-day period.

On Comcast, you can find it on Channel 17; TVMax, Channel 95; Sudden Link, Channel 98; and Phonoscope, Channel 75.

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