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  • Bikes and Buses: A Winning Combination

        More and more of our customers are getting where they need to go by combining a bike ride with a bus ride. Our latest stats show that November recorded 5 percent more boardings than the previous month with 7,092 boardings. We've been experiencing a steady growth in bikes on buses - a 48 percent increase from two years ago. ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on December 7, 2009
  • Bike Boardings on Upward Trend

      Today, feels like California. On a beautiful, sunny, no-humidity day like today, it's a perfect day to try bi-modal commuting. Grab your bike, pedal to a bus stop, load it on a rack and ride METRO to your destination.   Since we started installing bike racks on our buses in late April 2007, more and more commuters are getting to ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on November 4, 2009
  • Joining the Mayor on Bike-to-Work Day

      On National Bike Day, 10 members of Team METRO, along with other Houstonians, joined Mayor Bill White, biking from Memorial park to city hall downtown. About 300 cyclists pedaled the 15-mile route, making it a leisurely and conversational event. The ride began at 7:30 a.m. when the day was still refreshingly cool. "It was fun. The ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on May 15, 2009
  • Champion Cyclist Tells How to Tour de Office

        For the past two years, Hao Le has traded four wheels for two to get to work four days out of five. It's a 90-minute, 20-mile ride, but for this passionate biker, the commute is pure bliss. Le, a METRO senior attorney, is a competitive racer who says he bikes from his home in the Memorial City area in west Houston to downtown ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on May 13, 2009