![]() ![]() Some contract lettings have been delayed due to COVID-19. The total plan will cost $7.5 billion and will include a new 16-mile rail line that will connect both the Green and Purple lines to Houston’s William P. In November, voters approved a $3.5 billion bond measure for Metro Next Moving Forward. Ten percent of Houston Metro’s revenue comes from fares, and the agency also relies on a sales tax. The agency noticed some issues regarding social distancing on some of its trains so it is now using shuttle bus services to take passengers to and from the Texas Medical Center, which accounts for a third of Metro’s daily ridership. Houston Metro’s rail line is now running on a Saturday schedule, but on April 3 Lambert said there were still 123,000 boardings on buses and on rail. ![]() “What it has clearly reinforced is transit is essential to communities and how we adapt those services to keep that essential service operating in times of crisis is extremely important.” “This is getting folks to those medical facilities and those employees that support that healthcare facility or those who need that service. “In my mind it reinforces the critical nature in essential service that transit provides to a community,” Lambert told RT&S. Whatever the reason, Tom Lambert believes the COVID-19 pandemic has proven the essentialness of transit when it comes to the essential workers and the community. ![]() Perhaps that is why ridership is down just 55 percent on Houston Metro buses and trains. Thanks to the Texas Medical Center, the city of Houston has a large population of healthcare workers. ![]()
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