Metro spreads good cheer

Please forgive one more Metro-related post, but these letters to the editor, in today's Chronicle, were too good to pass up:

The Metropolitan Transit Authority continues to shoot itself in the foot! Do any of the board members live on a bus line?

The Bellaire bus No. 2 used to go all the way downtown, but now it stops midstream in the Medical Center and turns around to go back the way it came.

The same for the Kirby, Hiram Clarke and wonderful Main Street buses!

Does Metro not understand that people want to ride the bus and focus on getting to work — not worry about having to get off the bus, and wait for the rail going in the right direction to ride a mere two blocks?

Invariably, those who cannot drive cannot afford a vehicle — much less parking fees — so the poor and the handicapped have to suffer because of Metro's stupidity. This is causing much ill will.

BARBARA SHAIDNAGLE
Houston

And:

Whatever happened to the bus service that called on transfer locations in downtown, the Galleria area, Greenway Plaza and the Texas Medical Center back in the 1970s and '80s?

I think it would be a good idea to restore these services.

I recall the Metropolitan Transit Authority used to use regular city buses to run them and that they appeared to have a limited number of park and ride parking spaces available.

A bus service would be quite desirable today, especially with increasing gasoline prices and auto maintenance and insurance rates.

Personally, I can't afford to take taxi cabs.

The last time I called a cab to get to a doctor's appointment, it was more than $15 each way.

I can't imagine how much it would cost me to ride to the airport.

HOWARD BINGHAM
Houston

Ms. Shaidnagle and Mr. Bingham, it is a big mystery how the expert minds at Metro operate.

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 11/07/04 02:11 PM | Houston Transit | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (0)

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