Houston Light Rail Transit

3D Animation of the new Light Rail line in Houston, TX.

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[david40686]

light rail is what all the cool kids have.

[jkeelsnc]

What is wrong with light rail. Many cities are using it it very successfully. Someone mentioned phoenix but there is also Portland and of course Dallas has the DART rail system. Charlotte just opened a light rail line in 2007 and plans to expend it through their city.

[keithutexas]

@keithutexas PS... if you do try to take the train to DFW on a day other than Sunday, it still involves 2 buses from the DFW rail station... one to take you to the south parking area where you then transfer to another bus that takes you to the actual airport. That's insanity! Then try taking the train from UNT to DFW (4 hours on 3 trains and 2 buses for what takes 30 minutes in a car).

[keithutexas]

@texasboy5680 Sorry... DART doesn't quite make it to either airport... Try taking the train to DFW on a Sunday. How about those destinations where people actually work? The Medical Center (doesn't quite get you there)? Any office building in North Dallas (not even close). It's not the fault of the rail system; it's poor land use planning. The real question is whether 99% of people can ride rail to their jobs...not even close (not in Houston, either, but it it does serve a higher # of jobs).

[texasboy5680]

@keithutexas Dallas light rail avoids everything??...........hmm...A­merican airlines center home of 2outta4 Dallas teams....BOTH airports.....all of downtown and uptown... Fair Park...The Asian trade district...2 Convention centers.....runs parallel to ALL but 1 major freeway in the city limits....UNT at Denton and University of Dallas..Your right dart avoids everything....lol...what exact "major destination" were you referring to, cause that's about 99.9% of them?

[keithutexas]

@mailxxxxxx Sure,... monorail at $100m a kilometre. Get rid of the ugly 20cm cables in the air and replace them with attractive 1m concrete beams supported by 1m concrete structures (with cables attached).  Yes, monorail is clearly superior.

[keithutexas]

@texasboy5680 The Dallas LRT avoids everything, notably the major destinations. It doesn't matter if it's at grade or elevated... it has to go where people want to go. One 7.5 mile line in Houston carries almost as many people as the entire DART rail system... just because it hits the major employment centers (DART doesn't quite take you there).

[cheerwine01]

@jkeelsnc Having ridden the LYNX Blue Line in Charlotte, I can tell you that it has revitalized development in economic disaster zones, branded the image of the future on a Southern city, improved mobility, and increased public transit usage by 20-30%

Anyone who says lightrail is a failure or a waste isn't a fact-checker

[bigtown]

Still won't give Texans better personalities.

[bigtown]

Still won't give Texans better personalities.

[8v71buses]

Man those LRTs look real nice :-)

[PanzerVIZeke]

@Balefan83 Obviously not as difficult as you think. Houston's light rail has the second highest ridership per mile of any light rail in the country.