Subject: Passenger Transportation

• Learning to Crawl

  March 2, 2007

• Scorpion on a Plane!

  January 10, 2007

• Tale of Two Cities

  August 3, 2006

• Please Check Your Seatbacks -- and Pilot

  July 25, 2006

• Upward Mobility, My Ass

  July 21, 2006

• Metro: Are You Great, or Magnificent?

  July 18, 2008

• An Ike Miracle: Bayport Cruise Terminal To Actually Be Used

  September 16, 2008

• Dog Bites Train

  The Main Train and selling pets to labs have nothing in common. Until it comes to referenda, that is.

  July 8, 1999

• News of the Weird

  October 14, 1999

• Train In Vain?

  Main street's light rail is on it's way, and boosters hope to see passengers lining up for a ride

  February 3, 2000

• L'Italia Classica

  Simposio

  April 19, 2001

• Trainspotting

  Here's how Metro wants to sell us on light rail

  September 11, 2003

• High-Speed Rail Coming To Texas, Once Again

  Last week, the Houston Business Journal reported that high speed rail  is coming to Houston. At a speech at New York's Penn Station, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced that her office will soon begin "accepting expressions of interest to finance, design, build, operate and maintain high-speed trains on the Northeast Corridor and in 10 other federally-designated corridors around the nation."And wonder of wonders - Houston is on one of the corridors.Just think -

  December 23, 2008

• Tough Month To Be A Houston Flier

  October was really a tough month to be an air passenger in Houston.The federal Bureau of Transportation has released its latest survey of flight delays, and Houston plays a prominent role in it.The third-worst airline when it came to on-time arrivals was our very own Continental. Almost 19 percent of the airline's arrivals were late in October.But it's in the category of "Longest Tarmac Delays" that Houston really shines.

  December 10, 2008

• You Are Now Free To Bounce Around The Runway

  Think you had a bad weekend?It could have been worse: You could have been coming home from Denver on Contintental.As you've no doubt heard, a Continental jet skidded off the runway into a ravine while trying to take off Saturday.Continental has issued an Official Statement: "The care of our passengers, crew and family members is our highest priority and they will receive any assistance necessary," said Larry Kellner, Continental Airlines' chairman and chief executive officer. "We are deeply conc

  December 22, 2008

• Just Don't Breathe It

  February 3, 1994

• The Rule of Men, Not Law

  June 8, 1995

• Erin Andrews: Playboy's Sexiest Sportscaster

  Photo by speedye The competition has ended, and just like the Philadelphia Phillies putting down the upstart Tampa Bay Rays in last year's World Series, ESPN Erin Andrews' dominated her competition once again to repeat as Playboy.com's Sexiest Sportscaster. Playboy.com attempted to toughen things up this year, so they made it a two-step competition. But despite their best efforts, and despite my attempts to get people to write in Suzy Kolber and Carrie Milbank, Erin Andrews easily won this com

  February 13, 2009

• Cotswold Unspun

  May 1, 1997

• Why Don't They Want This Man to Be Mayor?

  October 2, 1997

• East End Transit

  November 27, 1997

• The Great Non-Communicator

  July 2, 1998

• We Read Thom Marshall So You Won't Have To

  February 4, 1999

• The Former Chron Employees' List, So Far (Updated April 3)

  So far we've been limiting our list of laid-off Chron people to names readers might recognize; we've heard from some current and ex-Chronsters that they'd like a master list, since no centralized information is coming anywhere else.With that in mind, here's what we've heard so far. Other names are still to come (we believe a lot more copy-editing types are victims, as all the separate departments' copy desks are rolled into one), and if there are any mistakes on the list we'll be happy to fix it

  March 24, 2009

• Letters

  February 24, 2000

• Trial Story

  June 15, 2000

• Best Patio

  September 21, 2000

• Erin Andrews: Playboy's Sexiest Sportscaster

  Photo by speedye The competition has ended, and just like the Philadelphia Phillies putting down the upstart Tampa Bay Rays in last year's World Series, ESPN Erin Andrews' dominated her competition once again to repeat as Playboy.com's Sexiest Sportscaster. Playboy.com attempted to toughen things up this year, so they made it a two-step competition. But despite their best efforts, and despite my attempts to get people to write in Suzy Kolber and Carrie Milbank, Erin Andrews easily won this com

  February 13, 2009

• Flying Objects: "Jac Leirner" at Gallery Sonja Roesch

  Jac Leirner transforms daily life's debris into art

  February 7, 2008

• Paradise by the Dashboard Light/Houston Music

  Racket again ventures downtown in search of musical serendipity

  March 29, 2007

• Missing them Margs

  November 30, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  April 13, 2006

• Best Use of Taxpayer Dollars

  September 23, 2004

• The Mixmaster

  County Judge Bob Eckels, the Doc Ock of transportation, is busy planning more roads

  July 22, 2004

• Perfect Fit

  Metro's new president already has a Houston attitude

  April 29, 2004

• Crash Course

  A stuntman is mightily impressed by Houston's rail crashes

  January 1, 2004

• Bile on the Isle

  The wild fight between an entrepreneur and the Galveston port for loot from cruise-ship lots

  December 11, 2003

• Letters

  November 6, 2003

• Bad Blood on the Tracks

  Metro's consulting becomes insulting for some Hispanic leaders

  October 2, 2003

• The Train Ride Gets Bumpy

  Metro's coalition shows some early cracks

  May 1, 2003

• Great Expectations

  Joe's Sandwich Shop is just one of the businesses along Main Street struggling to survive until Metro gets its light rail line up and operating.

  October 11, 2001

• Air Sic

  In cargo holds or plane cabins, critters are taking more than flights of fancy

  May 17, 2001

• The Katy: Railing On

  Fears of a future light train trouble Katy Freeway expansion critics

  December 9, 1999

• The Insider

  September 10, 1998

• Jitney Jihad

  Yellow Cab goes to war to keep jitneys off Houston streets

  February 2, 1995

• Little Big Crony

  Bob Lanier's buddy Billy Burge wants to play the power game the way it was played in the old days. . . . . . But the rules have changed.

  October 20, 1994

• Southwest Airlines Offering Some Really Cheap Seats

  Photo by ACommentSouthwest Airlines has created a huge amount of buzz among low-fare junkies this morning with the announcement of a two-day sale where all tickets cost either $30, $60 or $90 one-way.As the Dallas Morning News' aviation blog puts it: Southwest calls it "one of the biggest fare sales in the company's history."Rick Seaney of FareCompare.com called it "one of the most unusual system-wide airfare sales we have tracked in [the] past five years.""For those who have been waiting for th

  July 7, 2009

• Metro Still Has To Prove To The Feds It's Not Screwing Low-Income Riders

  Photo by pfrench99​The Federal Transit Administration released its final report on Metro's compliance -- and non-compliance -- with federal civil rights laws, and according to the report, Metro is still deficient in two areas, including not being able to prove that its November 2008 fare increase or recent service eliminations did not hurt minority or low-income riders.From the report:METRO remains deficient in this area because it has planned or implemented substantial new services during 20

  July 29, 2009

• Commuter Rail From Galveston And Hempstead By 2012!! Well, Maybe

  ​The Citizens Transportation Coalition is currently giddy with dreams of 90 MPH commuter trains speeding from Galveston and down 290 into the city...possibly by 2012, which sounds like the far future but is only three years away. There hasn't been much public movement on commuter rail since the HGAC's study was released a year ago. But quietly, gears are meshing, and we may have commuter rail to Galveston and Hempstead as early as 2012.On Thursday, the North Houston Association hosted a high-p

  August 4, 2009

• Southwest To Make Guinea Pigs Out Of Passengers, All In The Name Of The Environment

  ​We've heard of test pilots, but Southwest Airlines is offering the chance to be a test passenger.The airline is introducing a new "Green Plane," one where the materials used on a lot of things are lighter, resulting in a plane that uses less fuel to fly.If it works.One aircraft will be outfitted with new rugs and two new types of seat covers that save two pounds per seat, the airline says.There's also this:  Life Vest Pouch -- more environmentally friendly because it offers a we

  October 21, 2009