17 January 2007

Houston survives latest severe weather

This morning on KPRC-950, Michael Berry and guest Ken Hoffman discussed one of the Chronicle columnist's favorite topics: Houston's out-of-control weathermen.

The streaming audio of the show is available here (downloadable version here). It's pretty funny stuff.

UPDATE: Chris Baker is hitting the same topic today on his show on KTRH-740.

BLOGVERSATION: Mike McGuff.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/17/07 01:45 PM |


16 January 2007

Launch of METRO's stored-value card system delayed again

Yesterday, the Chronicle's Rad Sallee reported that the date for METRO's launch of its much delayed stored-value card system has slipped once again (although METRO spins the slippage more positively):

To work out the expected bugs and soften the shock to transit riders, Metro says it will phase in its new fare structure and "Q Card" payment system over several months and hopes to complete the changeover this summer.

"We're planning a rolling start rather than dumping an entire new system on patrons at once," said Metropolitan Transit Authority spokeswoman Raequel Roberts.

"It's just such a massive thing that to start Feb. 4 (the previously announced date) and expect everybody to be on board would have been too overwhelming," she said. "We don't want people getting on the bus and having all kinds of problems."

Let's hope the Q Card rollout at least goes more smoothly than Frank Wilson's E-Z Pass "procurement disaster" in New Jersey. So far, the record is not good.

METRO does deserve credit for recruiting testers for the new cards and fares:

Metro has recruited about 600 riders from all parts of the transit system — including local bus, Park & Ride bus, MetroRail and MetroLift — as part of an eventual sample of 1,000 who will use the new cards and report any glitches.

This cross-section of riders, dubbed "Q Boosters," are being issued Q Cards with $10 of stored value on them and will receive partial refunds for charging the cards up again when that runs out, Smalley said.

Oistad said these riders will use the new system and fill out forms about their experiences.

Among other things, they'll be surveyed about use of the card readers on buses, error codes they may observe in the reader window, whether they were able to transfer within a route, and when and where they rode.

The group also will test new fares, Smalley said. "If you're a student, for instance, the fare will go up from 25 cents to 50 cents, and we're testing to make sure the card reads 50 cents."

All Q Boosters should be on the job by Feb. 4 and will continue to report during the phase-in.

They should have recruited Laurence Simon, who already documents his experiences with METRO.

METRO blogger Mary Sit was busy today writing about the rubber sidewalks (that really have nothing to do with METRO) that Tory Gattis blogged about last October, but promises some comment on Sallee's Monday reporting on Wednesday. Hey, if the launch of the stored-value card system can't be timely, why should the blog spinning of the same?

UPDATE (01-17-2007): It's another late-afternoon blog post over at Sit and Spin, which probably means it took the PR folks most of the day to turn the Q-Card press release into this blog post.

BLOGVERSATION: TBIFOC.

BACKGROUND: METRO still waiting for working "Smart Card" system, METRO stops paying smart card developer, METRO's "smart card" saga rolls on, ACS gets contract to develop Metro's "smart card" system, METRO's new smart card system appears to be working, METRO advises rider to board bus that doesn't exist.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/16/07 11:04 PM |


HPD faulted for inadequate tracking of overtime expenditures

The Chronicle's Matt Stiles stole a bit of City Controller Annise Parker's thunder today, as his analysis of HPD overtime from payroll records was posted before the release of Parker's report on the same subject. Here's an excerpt from Stiles' reporting:

The Chronicle examined 2006 payroll figures for all police employees using data obtained under the Texas Public Information Act.

The department paid $53 million in overtime last year, about 10 percent of its budget for all personnel costs in the current fiscal year. The average overtime total was about $10,000 per department employee, up from $6,000 in 2005.

Only 74 of the city's roughly 21,000 employees made more than $50,000 in overtime last year. Three were from the fire department, and the rest work as police officers or sergeants.

Police commanders say the concentration of high overtime pay in a small group of rank-and-file officers reflects several factors.

The story goes into much more detail, and should be read in its entirety. HPD's severe staffing shortage contributed significantly to the overtime expenditures, of course.

Controller Parker's report is available here (pdf). In her press release, she criticized HPD for inadequate control and tracking of overtime hours:

A performance audit released today by Houston City Controller Annise Parker concludes the Houston Police Department lacks adequate controls to manage the amount of overtime and extra job hours worked by its classified officers. Auditors found no correlation between overtime worked for HPD and on the job injuries, accidents or disciplinary actions. However, they were unable to reach any conclusions regarding the impact of extra employment on job performance because the data was not available.

[snip]

HPD policy limits officers to no more than 16 hours on the job per 24-hour period and/or a total of 80 hours per workweek. According to the performance audit, the department lacks a process for identifying, tracking and reporting regular hours, overtime hours and extra job hours worked by officers. Officers are not routinely required to report hours worked on second jobs. As a result, there is no way to ensure compliance with the work hour limit. In fact, auditors noted that one officer included in the test group averaged pay for over 79 hours per week for the entire period covered by the audit without including extra employment, which he also worked.

The audit recommends HPD develop an internal program for scheduling and tracking overtime and extra employment hours worked by officers. “If anything, this is a matter of utilizing available computer technology to help HPD more effectively meet the very important demands of protecting Houstonians. HPD should know where every uniformed officer is working throughout the city. A manual system should be utilized until the new computer system kicks in. Other departments around the country are already doing this. ” Parker points out.

The audit was done at the request of Police Chief Harold Hurtt.

On the surface, it looks as if the city's watchdog media and one official watchdog (the Controller's office) have done some good work.

What do you think?

BLOGVERSATION: About: Chron.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/16/07 10:20 PM |


Nothing like stating the obvious

The following observation appears in R.G. Ratcliffe's Chronicle story about the inauguration and coming legislative session:

"When I take my hand off the Bible, I'll be 100 percent governor. I won't be 39 percent governor. I'll have 100 percent of the authority," Perry said. "When the session is done, take a look, and I believe we'll have had a pretty successful session."

At the moment, though, the scorecard is mostly blank.

Really? At the start of the legislative session? Shocking.

You can't get cutting-edge analysis like that from just any news organization's Austin bureau!

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/16/07 02:24 PM |


Rumbo continues downsizing in Houston

The Houston Business Journal reports that the Spanish language newspaper Rumbo is further scaling back its operations:

Spanish-language newspaper chain Rumbo, which had previously been published daily, has started publishing its Houston paper weekly.

The chain, owned by San Antonio-based Meximerica Media, is also reducing frequency of its hometown paper to a weekly as well, citing the success of its existing weekly in the Rio Grande Valley.

The company says the weekly format responds to Hispanic media buying trends which are heavily on weekend editions, delivered to newsstands on Friday and to homes on Saturday.

Rumbo's circulation in Houston is 100,000 copies, 50,000 in San Antonio and 45,000 in the Rio Grande Valley.

Less than a year ago, the publication pegged Houston distribution at 230,000 copies weekly while announcing it would be cutting its publishing schedule to Monday/Wednesday/Friday. The publication launched with lots of hype about its local focus and talented journalists. Unfortunately, they seem to have overestimated the market for such a product.

ADDITIONAL COVERAGE: Associated Press.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/16/07 01:27 AM |


Doctor-Former-Congresswoman lauds her perfect attendance

Last week, Doctor-Former-Congresswoman Shelley Sekula Gibbs sent out an email lauding her perfect attendance and voting record as she filled out the term of former Rep. Tom DeLay. Doctor-Former-Congresswoman tells us she participated in 25 roll call votes!

She vowed to continue working for the people of CD-22:

Shelley Sekula Gibbs
With the close of the Congressional session, Congresswoman Sekula Gibbs met with top law enforcement officials in Laredo, TX to talk about border security. National, state and local officials along the U.S./Mexico border have their hands full dealing with numerous challenges such as the crackdown on illegal immigration, the constant flow of illegal drugs brought in from Mexico, and an exploding crime problem caused by turf battles between rival drug organizations.

Congresswoman Sekula Gibbs pledged her support to the law enforcement efforts and vowed to return regularly to monitor progress being made and future needs that call for Congressional support.

Has someone told her she's not going to be much help providing Congressional support since she's no longer a member of Congress?

Or perhaps she meant that differently, and she's planning on some sort of Doctors Without Borders free dermatological clinic just across the border in Mexico?

Hard to say.

Isiah Carey has posted the entire email here.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/16/07 01:06 AM |


How about some municipal crackblogging?

The Chronicle's Dwight Silverman comments on an interesting article by New York Times columnist David Carr on journalists and blogging:

When I'm trying to sell a colleague on doing a blog (Ken Hoffman, you listening?), I tell them about how addictive it can be. For a writer who cares about what her or his readers think, I say, it's the ultimate pleasure.

You write, your readers respond almost instantly, your original piece grows with a depth it didn't have before they contributed to it. Even when the crowd disagrees and turns surly, what you wrote is more than it was before. It's a conversation.

To Silverman's credit, he's been able to convince many of the Chronicle's columnists to start blogs, and that has made them and the newspaper more interesting (although some are obviously better than others). And there also are Chron group blogs that cover topics such as education and music.

What is noticeably absent after all the talk of "news as a conversation" is a Chron.com local news blog.

On any given day, the Chron city desk has put together a wealth of information that will never make it into the print newspaper because it's too specific, or there are space limitations, or an editor won't pull the trigger, or what have you. But that's still potentially interesting news about our city that could be posted online for readers, where the cost of reproducing the information is minimal, and where the feedback from readers can be of value.

A group blog by the Chronicle's municipal reporters/columnists would seem to be a no-brainer for such a blog-heavy newspaper. Alas, there's no such creature. Instead, we sometimes get Chron.com postings on television news reports about Houston!

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/16/07 12:36 AM |


City to replace ailing trees along Allen Parkway

The Chronicle's Rad Sallee posts an update on trees being removed from the median along Allen Parkway:

Former Houston Chronicle business writer Greg Hassell wonders why trees are being removed from the Allen Parkway median from Taft to Shepherd.

Some of those remaining but marked with red paint "looked a little shabby as if some disease had got them," he said.

The good news is that the median is not about to be paved over. The bad news is that the 33 trees, all Shumard oaks from Tennessee, have failed to thrive in Houston's climate.

"I have no idea why they decided to buy them from Tennessee. Nobody here remembers," said city parks spokeswoman Estella Espinosa.

I wonder if the purchase was made during the glory days of Parks Director (and, as we now know, crook) Oliver Spellman during the Brown Administration. UPDATE: No. As a commenter points out, the story says the purchase was made in the 1980s, predating Lee P!

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/16/07 12:09 AM |


15 January 2007

The reader rep returns!

We had been wondering what happened to the Sunday Chronicle's "About: Chron" column by reader representative James Campbell when, lo and behold, it returned this weekend. We were afraid that the big newspaper execs had discontinued the column, since the reader rep sometimes criticizes the newspaper.

Substantively, the column treated the newspaper's recent coverage of two shootings by HPD officers. Some astute reader sent Campbell the following email, which he posted to his blog today:

You've got guts to criticize de facto the Chron's editorial re: police shootings. My hat's off to you, James Campbell.

I bet the reader representative would deny that he was criticizing the editorial since he was quoting another reader in his Sunday column, but it did sort of read that way.

In today's blog post, Campbell also responded to justified criticism from readers about the decision to run a feature on older women who appear in "adult films."

Now the RR is hardly prudish but seeing the story, along with a photo of a suggestively-clad, 50-year-old wannabe woman porn actress did have me questioning our rationale and judgment for publishing the story. So per the reader's request, I asked the Features Department hierarchy who made the call to publish the story?

Deputy managing editor for features Kyrie O'Connor responded:

I think it was consensus.

Perhaps the better question should have been: "Why" did we publish it, particularly on a Sunday and did we think the story may have been not suitable for a "family newspaper".

You'd think some grownups at the newspaper might ask questions like that, yes. But maybe there are no grownups in the Features Department.

In any case, it's good to see Campbell churning out the columns and blog posts again!

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/15/07 11:15 PM |


Oh my aching knee

This sometime blogHOUSTON contributor finished the 35th Chevron Houston Marathon yesterday.

In this day and age of road rage and crime, inconsiderate behavior and selfishness, being cheered on by complete strangers, give or take a few familiar faces, for an entire 26 miles as I finished something very personal to me was nothing short of amazing. Who says Houston doesn't love a good party?

Highlights: it took quite a while to get used to people saying my name (it was on my bib). I took communion before the race started from a Catholic priest at a Mass held at the George R. Brown Convention Center at 5:45 a.m. I was amazed at how well organized and planned this was. I've never done a marathon, but this one seemed well run, no pun intended. The first few miles of the race took us to the Heights, where I saw and recognized a childhood friend cheering us on. I pulled out of the pack to say hi to him. I realized the unfairness of being a chick when we passed several port-a-potty stands and guys decided to use the bushes instead of waiting in line for a turn. I took off my MP3 player around the 6th mile to take in the sounds and sights around me. There was more than enough to distract me from the effort at hand. In West U there was an Episcopalian priest handing out communion to runners while a parishioner sprinkled runners with holy water. There was a water station in Tanglewilde manned by Elvis impersonators as Elvis serenaded us in the background. There were numerous bands playing along the way. There were neighborhood parties in West U and Tanglewilde. There was a water station near the beginning of the final stretch at the West Loop "manned" by belly dancers. And two very dear friends of mine waited by the fountain on Allen Parkway with hand-painted signs to cheer me on. I think I was inconsolable at that point. As I approached downtown, I came upon one runner who had slowed down to gently encourage another on. Unlike runner KRamsauer, I did not look both ways for the train when I crossed Main. With three tenths or so of a mile left, all I could think of was finishing. Being hit by the train would have put me out of my misery, and that might've been welcome at that point. The cheers at the finish line were unbelievably deafening and energizing. I only wish I had seen Former President George Bush and Barbara Bush, who were apparently at my left as I finished. Instead, I looked for another blogHOUSTON contributor, whose encouragement along the route is probably the only reason I managed to finish.

People sat out in their yards and handed out orange slices and pretzels. I smiled through the pain when I passed one family with a ghetto blaster blaring the theme from Rocky in a loop. In several spots, P.A. systems had been set up and someone would call out names and encouragement to runners. I marveled at all the well-behaved dogs that joined their owners as spectators. They seemed to be enjoying the party atmosphere along the way as well.

It was an amazing Houston experience, and I'm glad I attempted it. Thanks, Houston, for making it memorable.

Now, if my knee would forgive me for pounding the pavement with it for 26 miles, that would be good.

BLOGVERSATION: Houston Running.

Posted by Callie Markantonis @ 01/15/07 10:36 AM |


14 January 2007

At the finish line

I was watching the Finish Line Cam via KTRK-13 and former President Bush and Mrs. Bush were there congratulating runners. That's pretty neat!

President Bush was using a walker as he recovers from hip replacement surgery, but he looked good out there, shaking hands, talking with the folks, and posing for pictures, along with Mrs. Bush.

blogHOUSTON reader KRamsauer reports that he safely crossed Main St., after looking both ways for the Danger Train.

Congratulations to all the participants. That's quite an achievement!

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/14/07 01:26 PM |


If he could just hang in there at least four more months...

Isiah Carey filed a video report for KRIV-26 of a local convenience store owner who is so fed up with being robbed -- 20 times in 26 years of business -- that he's decided to close up shop.

Store owner Jack Hamid said that he is frustrated with HPD's slow response to his case, and in fact, he told Isiah Carey that his store was burglarized the same night after he had been robbed.

We'd suggest members of MayorWhiteChiefHurtt's new convenience store task force contact Mr. Hamid, as it sounds like he'd have a few things to tell them. We'd also suggest Chief Hurtt contact Mr. Hamid, but it's the weekend and he might not be in town.

RELATED: Mayor White tackles convenience store crime with a task force!, Not exactly a rapid response-type of task force

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/14/07 07:44 AM |


And they're off!

Sunday morning, thousands of runners and spectators will gather for the annual Houston Marathon, which kicks off officially at 7:00 AM.

Thankfully, the planners were able to put together the event once again, apparently not suffering from Councilmember Carol Alvarado's "Event-ed Out" Syndrome.

The marathon website lists the associated street closures around town, as well as the marathon route.

The marathon route crosses the Main Street rail line, but there is no mention of service disruptions on METRO's website or blog (perhaps Mary Sit was simply too exhausted from the torrid pace of her first week of blogging to discuss the impact of one of Houston's biggest civic events on METRO services).

My quick search of Chron.com didn't turn up any specific information about the marathon and Danger Train service disruptions either, but perhaps if the TV stations have that news in the morning, Chron.com will post something. Here's Lucas Wall's Chronicle account of the Danger Train service changes related to the marathon two years ago. Nothing quite says "World Class Transit" like shutting down parts of your alleged transit backbone for a marathon!

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/14/07 12:02 AM |


13 January 2007

Not a very extravagant inaugural

Current headline on Chron.com:

Corporations to pay bulk of Perry's $2 ceremony

And it's been like that for several hours now.

I don't think our in-house grammarians have wepted, but considering the point of the story, the headline oops is amusing.

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/13/07 04:19 PM |


Metro's new blog takes a three day weekend (updated)

After a grueling week of five, no wait, six posts, Metro's new blogger is taking a well-deserved long weekend to recoup.

She has obviously typed her fingers to the bone!

Just for fun, let's take a moment to run the numbers: Mary Sit said in her welcome post that she was going to post every day. We can now interpret that to mean she'll post every work/week day. She will take holidays off (15 or so), and she probably has two weeks of vacation each year (10 days). As we have seen this week, her trend is to post once a day (except for yesterday when she did an extra post announcing her long weekend), so out of 365 posting opportunities each year, she'll write about 236 posts.

Hang in there, Mary!

KEVIN WHITED ADDS (01-14-2007): Is METRO embarrassed over that MLK post? Perhaps so, because the post has simply vanished this morning, and clicking the link above produces an error message! Fortunately, Bloglines cached the post from the Sit and Spin blog's RSS feed, so we'll just post that here:

MLK Holiday

By Mary Sit

Monday, Jan. 15, is a METRO holiday to celebrate MLK Day. I'll post again on Tuesday.

Deleting posts because they draw criticism isn't something good bloggers do, and it's certainly not the way for METRO to demonstrate its commitment to open, transparent dialogue with the public.

Then again, maybe it DOES demonstrate METRO's commitment in that regard.

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/13/07 09:16 AM |


Lee P. Brown heads off to New Orleans

Offered up without comment (because it leaves one speechless):

Houston’s former Mayor and Police Chief Lee Brown has been hired to help handle New Orleans’ growing crime problem.

LeePBrown
This comes one day after hundreds of people marched in the streets demanding something be done about the violence.

So far this year, nine people have been killed.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says Brown’s company will evaluate the city’s police department and help establish community police policies.

Brown says that should take about six months.

Wow.

RELATED: Visit Kevin Whited's personal blog's archives for plenty of Lee Brown memories.

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/13/07 08:11 AM |


12 January 2007

"I am the David Hasselhoff of the Danger Train"

METRO CEO Frank Wilson makes an appearance today on METRO Is Full of Crap!

So, we're admittedly biased in favor of hyperlocal blogging.

But hyperlocal humor blogging takes it to a whole new level.

Good times!

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/12/07 09:50 PM |


Unity, Houston style

Laurence Simon posts a few pointed comments about Houston's feuding Martin Luther King celebration factions.

As he makes clear, the squabbling "leaders" really should be ashamed of themselves.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/12/07 08:41 AM |


11 January 2007

News you CAN get elsewhere (cont'd)

As noted by Cory Crow earlier, the Chron city desk has been busy watching the morning television news again:

Houston-area firefighters were kept busy overnight battling two blazes, according to morning televised reports.

Crow says it's time for the Chron to stop pilfering TV news and go do some reporting.

Isn't that what world-class newspapers should do?

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/11/07 11:37 PM |


KHOU analyzes Park and Pillage crime surge; METROblog spins

Wednesday, KHOU-11's Jason Whitely followed up on an earlier story about the predictable surge in crime at METRO's Park and Pillage lots after the agency decided to remove live security personnel:

As we first told you last week Metro is trying to suppress a crime surge at its Park & Ride lots.

“It’s just tax money. Who cares?,” said Metro critic Tom Bazan.

But after our report, Bazan said Metro is overpaying for a system that won’t prevent anything.

“They were doing a better job of preventing crime when they were spending less. So it’s not a matter of how much money you throw at the problem it’s a matter of how effective you are,” Bazan said.

That may be true. Metro put guards in booths and only paid $1 million a year and crime was low.

But when money got tight, the transit agency got rid of the guards and crime surged more than 30 percent.

So Metro is now spending $16 million to install cameras and a public address system, gates that can be closed by remote control and emergency call stations.

But no guards.

“One security guard cannot see everything on a Park & Ride lot,” said Chief Tom Lambert, Metro Police Chief.

In his previous report, Whitely also described the surge in crime:

It's not just bus riders. Park & Rides passengers are targeted too.

For the last fiscal year, thefts went up 16-percent. The incease in robberies was even more alarming.

They skyrocketed by 400-percent compared to the fiscal year before.

Add it all up and crimes at bus stops, along the light rail and at Park & Rides were up 32-percent in the last year.

METRO's exciting (and expensive!) new blog was slow to post today (posts the previous two days have gone up in the 9:00 AM hour), so we suspected the PR flacks were hard at work spinning what any sane person had to regard as bad news (and perhaps even incompetence on the part of Chief Lambert). Sure enough, it took until 1:14 PM today for METRO's blogger to Sit and Spin the news (no doubt with help from colleagues):

The crime rate has crept up – but the city ‘s population has also surged as has its crime rate.

Is METRO’s new high-tech camera security system worth $16 million?

The cameras will be working 24/7, rotating 360 degrees to monitor loitering, crowded platforms, suspicious packages and non-bus vehicles that pull up in the bus lane. Hiring guards at $10/hour for 24/7 would cost $2.7 million a year.

That doesn’t include the cost of supervision, management structure or communications.

“As you continue to expand, you’d have to expand that,” said Lambert. “One guard on these lots could not clearly observe what this technology can observe.”

The security guards who sat in the guard shacks on METRO’s Park and Ride lots were never trained officers from METRO’s police department. They were contract security guards who were “trained to use the telephone – use their eyes and ears to call in a report,” said Capt. Tim Kelly of MPD.

The guards had no arrest authority and were unarmed.

“We’re not removing the human element,” Lambert explained later.

Actually, that's exactly what Chief Lambert and METRO are doing. Jason Whitely isn't stupid. The people who watched his accurate reporting aren't stupid. The people who read this blog (and others) and wonder about the METRO Police Chief's competence aren't stupid.

What is stupid is this statement from METRO's blogger:

The crime rate has crept up – but the city ‘s population has also surged as has its crime rate.

Well which is it? Has the crime rate crept up? Or has it surged? Because those are two very different characterizations. If the post took until 1:14 PM for a group of PR spinners to put together, you'd think the language would at least be consistent.

As we've noted previously, the population is estimated by the city's planning department to have increased, but we don't yet have census figures, so we need to be careful in how we discuss this estimated "surge." As we've also noted previously, some Chronicle reporters throwing about characterizations of crime in Houston need to be more careful. And as Matt Bramanti noted forcefully earlier, Mary Sit and the rest of the METRO spinners most certainly need to be more careful.

The fact is that METRO and Chief Lambert removed the security personnel. Crime surged, which was entirely predictable. METRO and Chief Lambert took forever to begin deploying cameras, which are not an effective replacement for "boots on the ground" (so to speak). And crime continues to be beyond acceptable levels at METRO's Park and Pillage lots.

A well-run business would concede that perhaps it made a mistake in eliminating the security presence at the Park and Pillage lots, and work hard to ensure the safety of its customers and their property. METRO and Chief Lambert, on the other hand, apparently think the problem will be solved by cameras and mischaracterizing the problem on METRO's Sit and Spin blog.

BACKGROUND: More problems at METRO's Park and Pillage lots, Park and Pillage lots get security cams and call boxes, KTRK Crime Tracker: Crime up at METRO's park-and-pillage lots, Park and Pillage safety takes a "quantum leap forward", METRO still looking at some technology for Park and Pillages, Chief Lambert: When a crime is reported, we'll rewind the tape, Metro's security track record does not inspire confidence, Beware tailgate thievery at Park and Pillages, Lambert: Park and Rides just need technology -- where do we get some, Metro's Park and Pillage, METRO pulls security from Park and Ride lots.

BLOGVERSATION: TBIFOC.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/11/07 11:13 PM |


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