Pasadena Residents to Get Park & Ride Service

re: Pasadena Residents to Get Park & Ride Service

DominicMazoch — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:39:12 GMT

OK, Passadena is NOT in the taxing area. Who is providing the extra money for the service?

re: Pasadena Residents to Get Park & Ride Service

Robert — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:19:19 GMT

Mary:

Dominic raises an excellent point -- how is this service funded? There must be some subsidy, since the fares for express service from Pasadena would have to be very high to cover the whole cost.

I am all for expanding express bus service as it will push cars off the road and reduce traffic in the inner-city, which makes life there more livable. However, I am very much against canabilizing funding for already bare-bones local service to give subsidized express bus service to an area that does not itself subsidize Metro.

So where does the funding come from?

re: Pasadena Residents to Get Park & Ride Service

Robert — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:52:42 GMT

Houston Chronicle reports that Harris County and Pasadena are paying for the service, with the county paying its share with federal transportation money.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6358042.html

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Royko — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:09:27 GMT

This reinforces my call for the state to shut METREAUX down. Transfer the rubber-tired bus and paratransit operations to the county. The HCTRA can take over the HOV lanes and park&pillage lots.

Scrap the tram, and give Houstonians our streets back!

Taxpayers would realize the savings, and the bus transit dependent would be subjected to less abuse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickline) indicates that 402 will start service June 1, 2009. This update was entered anonymously by someone at a Texas Medical Center computer on April 2 -- last Thursday.

It's not clear whether this guy is in a position to know, as it doesn't indicate where this information came from.

Mary -- can you confirm that June 1 is the plan for the 402?

Everyone else -- will the construction that some suggested was delaying Metro from kicking-off service still be going on in June?

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cecil — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:31:55 GMT

I have called around and canot fin where to load my Q-card that would help to have a place in pasadena I called all the places that metro states and they never herd of a Q-card this is a good thing that as citizen we can go to downtown driving and hassel free thanks

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Royko — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:21:48 GMT

Each of the Harris County Commissioners have operated a fleet of buses for years now. Just turn operations over to Harris County.

Then fire Wilson, lock down the Lee. P. Brown administration building, effectively kicking out the contractors who have been enjoying the "free" office space (I have a recently released list of contractors with security passes which do not need escorting by METREAUX officials while in the building, some of which hang around daily), then scrap the boondoggle tram.

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Cedric Collins — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:32:25 GMT

anveragr=>correct spelling is average.

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Cedric Collins — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:27:58 GMT

Be careful of having any sort of passion for mass transit there C---look at where it got me on here---even though I don't worry about it much anymore. People think it's weird but meh---their problem.

In regards to the METRORail deal, I'll have to think about having train above ground but underground is an almost certain uh-uh.

I don't think those two stops should be discontinued because there ARE people who get on/off there. Not as much as you think at other stops like the Downtown Transit Center but people would be up in arms if those stops are passed up during peak times.

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Royko — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:48:59 GMT

Mr. CoLLins,

If the economy continues to decline due to the conversion of our system under the current Congress and Marxist-influenced administration, we likely will all be peddling CHICOM-built bicycles and having to peddle to Castro rallies on Sundays.

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Royko — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Mr. CoLLins may be correct. There could be an unlikely instance when Mr. Wilson, or some other highly-compensated METREAUX employee, possibly with a generous car allowance, might be standing on such a platform so as to ride the Glorious Utopian tram back to the Lee. P. Brown administration building.

We wouldn't want to strand them, now would we?