This does not surprise me at all, lived in the greater Houston area for 10 years and it is extremely car-centric, and drivers are among the most bobble-headed I’ve experienced. Portland has its share of collisions with light rail but usually it is impaired drivers or someone Darwinizing themselves by not looking.
Must be nerve-wracking being the operator of one of those trains. You’ve got to believe there are half a dozen close calls for every collision. Old locomotives had “cow-catchers” on the front–shouldn’t there be a bunch of those still around in Texas?
I think people are learning just to stay off of main in downtown and off of Fannin in the Med Center. I think that was the plan all along. They even made a section of Main pedestrians and trains only.
All this is going to start again in a year and a half when the University line opens.
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13 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.This does not surprise me at all, lived in the greater Houston area for 10 years and it is extremely car-centric, and drivers are among the most bobble-headed I’ve experienced. Portland has its share of collisions with light rail but usually it is impaired drivers or someone Darwinizing themselves by not looking.
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What a cool way of culling the green tooth goober herds! Every city and town in GI Geebusstan needs one of those systems.
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So what have we learned here? You just DO NOT turn left anywhere in Houston! OUCH!
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Great idea ! ___ lets build a road and then put a train track in the middle of it ….genius!
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Must be nerve-wracking being the operator of one of those trains. You’ve got to believe there are half a dozen close calls for every collision. Old locomotives had “cow-catchers” on the front–shouldn’t there be a bunch of those still around in Texas?
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I think people are learning just to stay off of main in downtown and off of Fannin in the Med Center. I think that was the plan all along. They even made a section of Main pedestrians and trains only.
All this is going to start again in a year and a half when the University line opens.
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IT IS A TRAIN GIVE IT SOME RESPECT PEOPLE. You would guess that a giant piece of steel and glass that size would get people to pay attention.
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Perhaps the problem is that it glides as softly as a cloud.
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Is there a chance the track could bend?
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Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
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What about us brain-dead slobs?
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You’ll be given cushy jobs.
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Didn’t this already happen in Inception?
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