Metro proposed 41 miles of new light rail today that includes four new light-rail lines as a part of Metro’s draft 22-year mass-transit plan, Metro Solutions. The draft also includes a possible 25-mile commuter train from the southern end of the Main Street line to Rosenberg. Eight miles of the traditional “heavy” commuter train would be built by Metro with the rest financed and constructed by a yet-to-be formed Fort Bend County transit agency.
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Metro’s first light-rail car crossed into Texas on a flat-bed truck Tuesday morning, drawing stares as it creeped east along Interstate 10. The rail car is the first of 18 en route from the Siemens plant in Sacramento, Calif., for Metro’s Main Street rail line to begin service Jan. 1 between Reliant Park and downtown. The car is to arrive in Houston on Thursday, April 24 and be publicly unveiled May 1.
Many experts on public health say the way neighborhoods are built is to blame for Americans’ physical inactivity — and the resulting epidemic of obesity. The health concern is a new slant on the issue of suburban sprawl, which metro regions have been struggling with for a decade.
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El Paso and its transit system, Sun Metro, have a number of projects continuing to gather steam.
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Texas House Transportation will consider a bill this week to combine two proposals to create a larger regional mobility authority that includes existing public transit, according to the Dallas Business Journal, one of a number of legislative initiatives being jammed through the legislative process.
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A high-speed train from Las Vegas to Anaheim would reduce airport congestion enough to warrant billions of dollars in private investment and federal aid, the chairman of the House Transportation Committee said Monday.The magnetic levitation system proposed by the California Nevada Super Speed Train Commission is expensive, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, acknowledged during a briefing at the Ontario Convention Center. But it could help solve growing congestion of Southern
California airports and roads, he said.
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