METRO fails Cuney Homes residents
METRO's latest service "improvements" have kicked in, and some people aren't happy. KHOU-11's Rucks Russell reports:
[Mary Thomas] said she’s used the same bus stop for 40 years – just a stone’s throw from her back porch – to get her to and from work.
But now that’s all changed.
“I’m angry. I’m very angry,” Thomas said.
Thomas’ bus, the No. 68 Brays Bayou, started traveling a brand new route Sunday, leaving behind The Cuney Homes and an 81-year-old loyal customer.
Now Thomas and other Cuney Homes residents have to walk several city blocks to catch their bus … and that has many in the neighborhood hopping mad.
[snip]
A Metro representative said that when a route moves, it may hurt one patron but help several others.
But that doesn’t help the residents of the Cuney Homes – or the TSU students just across the street. A number of students even said they believe the new routes could place their safety in jeopardy.
“These aren’t necessarily the safest places for high school, college students, young women to be roaming by themselves,” Jade Cooper, a student, said.
It's not the safest place, no.
Unfortunately, METRO more and more seems to think of itself as a real-estate redevelopment organization, instead of a transit organization focused on mobility (and especially on mobility of those who are less fortunate). Good for you, if you live in a loft along Main or plan on purchasing one at the redeveloped AstroWorld site. Too bad if you are a transit-dependent resident of one of Houston's poorer neighborhoods.
RELATED: METRO route changes worry some riders (KTRK-13).
BLOGVERSATION: METRO Is Full Of Crap.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/22/07 11:37 PM | Print |
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