KPRC-2 investigates METRO's mass transit promises
KPRC-2 ran an interesting story last night from investigative reporter Robert Arnold, who's been looking into promises made by METRO in the 2003 referendum versus promises kept.
The story has now been transcribed and posted here.
Most of the complaints about METRO's departures from the referendum will be familiar to readers here, although METRO Board Chairman David Wolff's condescension for those who dare question his organization seems ratcheted up a few notches.
How about anchor Rachel McNeill's query of Arnold after the story?
"Robert, when METRO took its plan to the voters in 2003, didn't it also promise to increase bus service by 50 percent?" KPRC Local 2 anchor Rachel McNeill asked.
"Yes, it did. But that hasn't happened either. In fact, some routes have been cut since the election. METRO officials say there just not a demand for that much of an increase. Plus, METRO officials say the routes that were cut had such a low number of people using them they couldn't justify keeping those routes open," Arnold answered.
It seems sort of strange that an unnecessary promise would have been included in the 2003 referendum (unless it was necessary for METRO to mislead certain voter demographics in order to win the vote, eh?), but as Chairman Wolff suggests, those promises were always malleable anyway (kind of like a living constitution!).
UPDATE (05-14-2007): Part Two of Arnold's reporting ran today, and is posted here.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/14/07 10:50 AM | Houston Transit | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (10)
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