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Hardy Yards Letters Get Roughed Up Again Under the Red Line Overpass
The recent restoration of the Hardy Yards district sign’s upright stature and youthful good looks appears to have been short-lived — Christopher Andrews found the H sprawled flat on its back over the...
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Robert Ellis’s Romantic Dream of a Deserted Downtown Houston Freeway-scape
This week’s video release from hometown country singer Robert Ellis takes viewers on a forlorn wandering tour of Houston’s downtown and surrounding thoroughfares, sans all of those pesky people and...
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Feds: Unused Richmond Light-Rail Funding Offer Now Expired, Getting Thrown Out
A letter from the Federal Transit Authority released this morning by the office of long-time light-rail derailer US representative John Culberson announces that the comatose plans for rail...
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Comment of the Day: Where Could Trains Go That Buses Couldn’t?
“Light-rail transit the way METRO has built it is slow, and actually adds somewhat to congestion by taking up a vehicular lane and messing up traffic flows (i.e. no left turns). . . . Frankly, buses...
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Metro Suspects You Are Annoyed By Tardy Trains
Though they don’t have the numbers to prove it, Metro officials are concerned that regularly late trains may be driving away riders, writes Dug Begley this week; even Metro board member Christof...
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HBDi Seeking Makeover Help for Palm Center at the End of the Purple Line
Like the looks of the conceptual drawing above, showing one of the possible ways to dress up HBDi’s Palm Center on Griggs Rd.? Or think you’ve got a better idea, and the real estate connections to...
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Metro Might Never Need To Change a Station Name Again If It Just Changes 28...
In response to word from the Chronicle‘s Dug Begley this week that the Red Line’s Reliant Park light-rail stop might get its station name updated to an even older name, a Swamplot reader jumps on the...
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Digging Up a Little Dirt on the Uncle Johnny’s Good Cars Lot in Near Northside
Chris Andrews has caught a few snapshots of what appears to be a soil sampling crew at work at 1901 N. Main St., formerly the site of Uncle Johnny’s Good Cars. Most of the 37,679-sq.-ft. property,...
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Metro Now Hedging Against Inevitable Reliant Park Light-Rail Renaming Backlash
METRO is currently seeking some public input on replacing the Reliant Park light-rail stop’s outdated moniker. The agency’s preface to the poll notes that the naming rights to the station itself were...
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Houston Light Rail Beats the Competition in Pedestrian, Bicycle Collisions...
Following 2 deaths over the course of Super Bowl Week and Weekend resulting from cyclist-vs-light-rail collisions, the Chronicle‘s Dug Begley takes a look at how Houston stacks up nationally in terms...
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N. Main’s Train Avoidance Tunnel Briefly Plugged by Semi
The light at the end of the N. Main St. tunnel beneath the Union Pacific Line was obscured for a bit this morning where the northbound side of the road re-emerges into tossed-coffee-cup range of the...
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Houston’s Vanished and Current Middle-of-the-Road Rail Networks, Close Up and...
Here’s one way to make a graphic comparison of the tight-knit electric streetcar routes that crisscrossed tiny 1895 Houston (pop. 44,643) to today’s more spindly 22.7-mile light-rail network: Zoom way...
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