Thursday, November 20, 2003
THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG
My antipathy to light-rail urban mass transit programs in modern U.S. cities isn't a secret. The absurdity of trying to stitch expensive rail systems into cities that grew organically around the automobile would be illustrated in Houston, I predicted in a recent conversation, when they turned on the trains in the costly toy system that's just being implemented here: Running at grade level without any kind of barrier between them and the cars, I figured we'd have lots of collisions. The first one happened last night on one of the trains' first test runs. But I should have known it wouldn't be a car that would have the honor of being the first vehicle to get hit. It was an SUV.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:18 AM
