Metropolitan Transit Authority
of Harris County, Texas

Board of Directors holds briefing session on procurement process 

Last Monday (January 22, 2007), METRO staff briefed the Board of Directors regarding the status of the vendor evaluation process for Package I of the METRO Solutions transit plan.  Package I procurement refers to the Guided Rapid Transit (GRT) Corridors as well as the Intermodal Terminal.  The slideshow presentation is available online. 

HP / Cypress Park & Ride launches successfully - with construction underway at permanent site 

If you're stressed out from sitting in traffic on the U.S.-290, relief just arrived.  Thanks to a partnership with Hewlett-Packard (HP), METRO began operations of its new 217 HP / Cypress Park & Ride on Monday, January 22. 

A lease agreement allows METRO's customers to park in about 620 spaces at HP's property (see map), while the permanent facility is built nearby.  More details are available on a news release issued yesterday and a blog post also dated January 18. 

METRO had projected that on the first month of operations there would be an average of 500 boardings per weekday.  On its first day of operations, there were 478 boardings.  That's 95 percent of the estimated average weekday boardings.  How does this compare with other opening days? The highest opening day ridership for a new Park & Ride in the past 15 years was 379 boardings on Route 257 Townsen.

Environmental Assessment complete for Intermodal Terminal  

Last Tuesday (January 16, 2007) the METRO published a legal notice regarding the availability of the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact.  These documents, presented by both METRO and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), mark the completion of the federal environmental process for the Intermodal Terminal.

East Downtown Management District briefed on Southeast Corridor project

METRO staff met with members of the East Downtown Management District on Thursday, January 18, regarding downtown station locations of the Southeast Corridor.  The material presented to this group is available online.

January 23, 2007
Volume II, No. 2

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