Another Park and Ride bites the dust
Metro is closing another Park and Ride lot:
Due to low usage, METRO will close the Alief Park & Ride Lot at 8901 Boone Road and discontinue the Alief portion of the 262 Alief/Westwood route after Friday, Jan. 21.
The 1,373-space Alief Park & Ride lot has been underutilized since it was built in 1981. Based on parking space usage counts over the past nine years, the lot's highest average daily occupancy was 230 vehicles in Fiscal Year 1995, but usage has declined to its lowest occupancy of 120 vehicles in FY 2004 (less than 10 percent of capacity).
That's one less Park and Ride that will require surveillance cameras. And that's not all the good news:
In addition to the money METRO will earn on the sale of the property itself, the closure will provide an estimated savings of more than $100,000 in annual operating costs.
That should help with Metro's debt. What about those 120 or so drivers who were using the Alief lot? Metro lists some alternatives:
METRO patrons of the Alief lot still have at least four other Park & Ride lots in the vicinity from which to choose:
* Gessner, 9925 Westpark at Gessner;
* West Bellfort, 11415 Roark Road at West Bellfort;
* Westchase, 11050 Harwin at Rogerdale; and
* Westwood, 9990 Southwest Freeway (south of Bissonnet).
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 01/21/05 09:28 AM | Print |
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