Ask President Bush and God to fix MetroRail's crash problem
Here's quite a column from the Springfield (MO) News-Leader:
And then there's Houston. A year and a half ago, Houston put in the first segment of a projected light rail system, 7.5 miles of it. In the first eight months, they had 40 collisions between trains and cars. Forty.
Sacramento, on a similarly situated line, suffered only four car-train collisions during a like period.
But are people in Houston taking a hard look at their driving habits? No. They're blaming the trains.
"Are you from America?" yelled a Houston driver at a reporter. "I'm from America, 49 years. Here, you're taught as a kid that flashing lights, arms come down --trains coming."
The truth is, Houstonians are terrible drivers. They have an accident rate nearly twice the national average.
"It's the general perception," said the chief executive of Houston's Metro. "People in the street, elected officials. They say, 'What's wrong with Metro? Why is it blaming these motorists?' As if it's a God-given right in Houston to run red lights."
We should ask President Bush. He's been to Houston and he has chats with God often.
The author, Donald Kaul, is the former Washington columnist for the Des Moines Register, according to the byline.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 03/26/05 10:18 AM | Print |
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