Talk:Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas
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This sounds like a travel brosure for the City of Houston. The Houston Metro article should mention a few of the following. A) Metro board is not an elected board! It is chocked full of appointees of the Mayor (Bill White) and City Council. They are not accountable to anybody and spend tons tax payer dollars without any regard,they know they can just increase bus / train fair or vote for a greater portion of the tax payer subsidies. B) The Metro toy train is a waste of money! Metro decided to put it down already existing bus routes which didn't add any new riders, it simply just moved already existing bus riders on to a much much more expensive mode of transportation. C) Metro decided against running the toy train somewhere where it would be most affective like to either one of Houston's big airports, nope, they choose carving up freshly redone street's and rerouting traffic to tackle a much more pressing problem of how will homeless poeple get around through downtown streets (which most people avoid because downtown Houston sucks to navigate through) which caused a real conjestion night mare. D) Houston now leads the nation in train / vehicle accidents. Yep, Along w/ carving up busy downtown streets of Houston and usually taking a traffic lane (in both directions which further increases traffic) the train now zig-zags through the streets of Houston.It cuts through intersections, back and forth over streets,under freeways and through our medical center, which ironically helps since again we lead the nation in train and car accidents. Metro has it's own police force to issue citations to people who are unlucky enough to get hit by a train. It is always the fault of the driver, even when eye witness account's contradict Metro drivers. E) A vote was put to Houstonian's for the toy train to run down desolate West Park, it was approved. Now, Metro decides they don't want it down West park any more, they now want to run the toy train down much more congested Richmond Ave. Real estate down this ave. is much greater and businesses would be hurt by the snail's pace of construction and the sacrifice of lanes for this experiment. They refuse to allow Houstonians another vote of the matter for years now. F) Houston Metro has a history of snatching up real estate through eminate domain,(usualy real pieces of prime real estate) sitting on it for a while, then selling it to big corporation's or political cronies for big profit. G)The 10,000 sf building they were housed in didn't do much for them,so the Metro board decided a collosal $20 million dollar mansion was much more appropriate for the unaccountable board members of this city subsidized theives union. H) The toy train cannot operate in 3 inches of water. And recently (Oct. 2006), a rat chewed through some power cables and shut the whole system down for a day stranding thousands of Houstonians. Just brilliant.
I could go on, but I think I have made my point. When writing an article, especially for Wikipedia, balance should be the ideal. The above was written because the Metro article sounded like a sales add created by a marketing firm out of Nebraska. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.89.166.243 (talk • contribs) . By: Porkchop
