Photo by pfrench99Metro's announced they'll be doing track maintenance this weekend, so if you're planning on cruising the light rail through downtown, think again.There will be no service between the Downtown Transit Center and UH-Downtown from 5:30 am til 2 pm on both Saturday and Sunday, Metro's Carolina Mendoza says. Instead riders will get to experience the luxury of connector buses, which will run every 15 minutes.Light-rail service won't be affected between Fannin South and the DTC, by th
We weren't really surprised to learn that the saga of The Great Metro Shooting is once again grabbing headlines, this time with the news that the bystander who was shot now plans on suing Metro.
Guadalupe Acosta, a nanny, told the Chron she was shot in the shoulder as she was pushing the toddler she cared for around the Rice University jogging path. And she said no one from Metro ever apologized or expressed sympathy. Since Metro ain't talking, Hair Balls can only speculate that that was a legal
Courtesy Cushing Memorial Library & ArchivesLast week we told you how the police force of Milo, Maine (Motto: "Such As It Is") was receiving more stimulus funds than HPD. Admittedly easy to do, since HPD was getting zero stimulus funds.Now the snub gets worse: Metro will be feeding at the trough that is blocked to HPD.The agency will get $3 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, one of 15 such agencies in the country to get money."METRO's police department will use the m
