Street smarts, coming soon to Texas
You know your standards as a transit agency are low when you celebrate going 23 days without a collision between one of your trains and a car, beating the previous record of 16 days. This has been serious problem since the line opened, with accidents stopping a train every few days.
With one line.
That runs a little over seven miles.
But it isn't the fault of Houston's transit agency, really it's not. Nearly all accidents involving the new light rail system are the fault of car drivers, who don't read the signs that flash when the trains are coming. Annie Hall may have reinforced the stereotype of New Yorkers who can't drive, but it turns out that auto-nutty towns like Houston produce drivers who are even more careless.
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rj3 | 08:41 AM |
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Is Laurence Simon still running the Metro Light Rail Deathwatch?
Crazy.
Maybe they should start with driver's ed. At least one driver's ed instructor doesn't want to take high school students by Metro Rail: "We avoid that like the plague." So when are they going to learn?
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/features/2889243
