TMC to start Park and Ride service

Texas Medical Center employees will soon have a new transit option according to KHOU-11:

“Soon, Texas Medical Center employees could come to this AMC theater parking lot in Sugar Land, leave their cars and hop on a bus for a ride.”

“I’m definitely excited,” employee Dionne Flynn said. “I’m waiting for it to actually start working.”

Flynn and her fiancé work at the Medical Center and hope to take the park-and-ride.

Like so many employees surveyed, they say something’s got to give. and it isn’t gas prices. Eighty-one percent of employees said yes, and they’re about to get it: bus rides from fort bend county to the medical center.

“And it’s like door-to-door service,” park-and-rider user Percy Patel said. “I can’t ask for more, right?”

Sugar Land is the first proposed location, but the system will grow—paid for by the Medical Center’s parking garages. Spaces no longer used by employees will bring in more money. That’ll subsidize bus costs, and riders will shell out a few dollars.

“It’s a win-win situation,” Patel said.

There's no mention of Metro's "transit backbone."

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 07/01/08 04:58 AM | Houston Transit | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (12)

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