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April 18, 2012
Comment of the Day: United, Southwest & Loyalty
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit ... More >>
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April 17, 2012
United vs. Southwest Deathcage Match: Your Campaign Donations Scorecard
Houston City Council is currently in an uproar over Mayor Annise Parker's tentative proposal to allow Southwest to have international flights out of Hobby Airport. Councilmembers have said the proposal is rushed and would harm United Airlines, which, of course, merged with Continental and flies int ... More >>
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March 13, 2012
Houston: Only Two U.S. Cities Have More Dangerous Drivers
As you head out for your commute, keep this cheery thought in mind: You are about to hand your life over to some of the most dangerous people around: other Houstonian drivers. Space City drivers are the third-most dangerous in the nation, according to another one of those pseudoscientific studies b ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Your Bus & Rail Is Free on New Year's Eve
If your New Year's Eve plans include drinking past the point where it'd be wise to get behind the wheel, Metro's got your back. All buses and light rail are free from 6 p.m. New Year's Eve until 6 a.m. New Year's Day, the agency announced. Metro says it "wants to help individuals celebrating the a ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Howard Hughes Gets a Light-Rail Station Named After Him
Bring your own urine jars.The world's cleanest, germ-free light-rail station -- albeit one in which you no doubt will be encouraged to piss in jars -- will be Stop 3 on Metro's new East End line. That stop will be officially designated the Altic/Howard Hughes stop, the agency announced today ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
Metro Wants to Use Private Security Firms to Make Sure You Pay for Your Light-Rail Ride
They're watching you; they see your every move, baby.Metro is making noises about hiring private security as fare enforcers on the light rail. Right now state law bars that, but Metro says Phoenix does it, so why can't they? "Adding civilian fare inspectors could not only increase fare insp ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2011
Southwest Pilot Caught on Open Microphone: You Are Now Free to Denigrate Gays and Your Female Flight Attendants
Times haven't changed (for some).KPRC has broken the story of a Houston-based Southwest pilot who got a little chatty without realizing his cockpit microphone was on. Air-traffic controllers were treated to a rundown on how the unnamed pilot thinks most Houston flight attendants are ugly, wi ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Metro Prepares for Final Four Onslaught
Metro clearly wants to avoid this during the Final Four weekend.Beginning next Thursday, college basketball fans will begin descending on Houston for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, held at Reliant Stadium. In addition to the games, there is a fan festival at George R. Brown Convention ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Unidentified Male, 20, Bayou Body Count No. 38
TrafficHouston roads are never the safest places and there have been several recent traffic fatalities as proof. Tuesday night, around 10:50 p.m., the unidentified male victim, 20, ran a red light in his Ford Taurus in the 6700 block of the West Sam Houston Parkway North service road. A blac ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
Unidentified Male, 30-35, Bayou Body Count No. 34
Man killed in fatal traffic accident.HPD is investigating a fatal traffic accident at 4400 South MacGregor Way around 7:25 p.m. Friday, March 18. The victim, a 30 to 35-year-old male, is currently unidentified. According to the incident report, the victim was driving a tan Jeep Wrangler east ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
The Mechanic: Is This the Latest Metro Crash?
SUV Meets Bus The Mechanic at MOVIECLIPS.comAds for the subtle coming-of-age film The Mechanic, starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster and plenty of guns and bombs, have been all over the air recently. Last night we actually bothered to watch one when it came on. And we could have sworn we saw ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2011
Remember: No Light Rail Service This Weekend
Another weekend without light railThings are back to normal with Metro light rail service -- it's out again all weekend. Construction on a new pedestrian bridge over Fannin in the Medical Center will once again force people onto the bus from 8 p.m. tonight to midnight Sunday. (You might wan ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
January Weekends: Don't Expect Much Light Rail
Construction for the agesHow long does it take to build a freaking pedestrian bridge across Fannin? Long enough that -- on the heels of Metro having to suspend light rail service on some December weekends to accommodate construction -- they'll be doing the same for most of January, the agenc ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Big Stop Sign On Metro's Light Rail Projects
Photo by Bryan WilliamsMetro's light rail expansion plans are slowing down. Big time. More bad news, at least for people hoping for more light rail in Houston, came from Metro headquarters this morning when the agency's president, George Greanias, announced that the light rail expansion budget fo ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Bullet Train Dream Still Remains Popular, If Not Likely To Happen
Houston to Dallas High Speed Rail Presentation When we wrote earlier this week about a Japanese executive giving a presentation about a bullet train between Houston and Dallas, we really didn't think much of it. They've been talki ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2010
Metro Gets Bit By The "Buy American" Rule
An FTA ruling concerning light rail cars purchased from Spanish company CAF puts a whole lot of money in jeapordy for Metro. Metro has received just about the worst news possible: The Federal Transit Administration's "Buy American" investigation found that Metro did, in fact, violate federal guid ... More >>
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September 9, 2010
Metro "Clarifies" That Feds' Ruling Will Delay Light Rail Construction
Metro: Upon further review......Yesterday's bombshell announcement that the federal government had found Metro's purchase of rail cars to have violated "Buy America" laws brought with it assurances that the agency could still stick to its schedule of building the light rail system.That's not the ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
Metro Light Rail Expands Hours For Bike Riders
The Iron Horse welcomes velocipedesMetro and BikeHouston have reached an agreement that expands the hours bike riders will be allowed on light-rail trains.Bikes are still barred during peak travel hours in the morning and afternoon, but the definition of "peak hours" has changed.Bikes can now be ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Beyond the Motor City
Getting Detroit residents out of their cars and onto a bus or train won't be an easy job
Blogs
May 4, 2010
Unidentified Homeless Man, Bayou Body Count No. 97
Some driver was a long way from the roadA homeless man thought he had a safe shelter set up about 200 feet off Almeda Road. He probably never saw the car coming that killed him.Houston police say a hit-and-run driver left the roadway and traveled the 200 feet to the homeless man's encampment abou ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2010
Frank Wilson Survival Watch, Day 3: Spanish Bombs
How long will the embattled Metro president last? Hair Balls presents today's installment of the Frank Wilson Survival Watch. 1. The Federal Transit Administration sends Frank Wilson a damning letter. Dorval Carter, the FTA's chief counsel, alerted Wilson at the end of last week that the feds are ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Don't Depend On Light Rail To Get You Anywhere This Weekend
If you were thinking you could drink freely downtown this weekend and take the light rail home, think again. It's "Set Back the Clock" weekend at Metro, as they abandon the sleek 21st-century wonder of light rail and regress back to smelly old buses.A new pedestrian bridge is being installed over ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2010
Stay The Hell Away From The South Loop If You Know What's Good For You
The West Loop is a disaster area right now. An 18-wheeler has shut it down.From TxDot: EMERGENCY CLOSURE OF IH 610 WEST LOOPAt the request of the City of Bellaire, the Texas Department of Transportation has closed IH 610 West Loop southbound mainlanes and frontage road at Bellaire and is in the proc ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Even Edgar Winter Can't Get A Free Ride On The Light Rail Today
Light-rail riders, beware. The cops are out to getcha.Since early this morning, Metro police and light-rail employees have been stationed at each stop along the route checking to make sure everyone has a ticket and is not abusing the city's well-loved, though probably often abused, honor system.I ... More >>
News
November 19, 2009
Saying Goodbye: A serial killer's victim is finally buried and Metro kicks the homeless off the light rail.
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Blogs
November 6, 2009
Metro Vice President To Homeless: Stay Off Our Train
Todd Mason is the vice president of real estate services for Metro. At the time of his hiring, there was some concern that by hiring Mason and dabbling in big-time real estate development at and around Metro properties, the transit organization was extending itself far beyond its mission statemen ... More >>
Film
October 22, 2009
Truth in Advertising
Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London. And might sell some train tickets, too.
Blogs
May 21, 2009
Feds Say Metro Has Violated Civil Rights Laws (Without Specifics)
We reported yesterday on things looking up for Metro, but today Hair Balls learned that our transit authority is violating the federal government's definition of civil rights. According to a letter dated April 27, the Federal Transit Administration conducted a Title VI Compliance Review of Metro ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2009
Tempers Flare At The Metro Board Meeting
Some important things could have been resolved at today's Metro board meeting, particularly the absence of a contract between Metro and an outside company to design and build four proposed light-rail lines, the cornerstone of future mass transit in Houston.Instead, we got wife-beating. It starte ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2009
Continental Wants Its Pilots to Work Harder, Fly Righter
If you're flying Continental to Mumbai in the near future, you might want to pay close attention to how rested the pilot is. Are her eyes bloodshot, or are the lids propped up with toothpicks? Or is she perhaps knocking back little pills with gallons of coffee? Well, the FAA seems a bit worried tha ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 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 o ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2008
News Chopper Crash Shows The Dangers
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 o ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2008
Fort Bend Transit Has A Charmingly Naive Trust In Its Customers
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 o ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2008
The Osteen Trial: Let The Feasting Begin
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 o ... More >>
Calendar
May 15, 2008
Bobby Lee
MADtv’s funny man clears it up: He never starred in Grey’s Anatomy
Blogs
December 11, 2007
This Just In: Proletariat’s Days Are Numbered
MADtv’s funny man clears it up: He never starred in Grey’s Anatomy
Blogs
August 10, 2006
So Long, Friendly Skies
MADtv’s funny man clears it up: He never starred in Grey’s Anatomy
News
April 13, 2006
Letters to the Editor
MADtv’s funny man clears it up: He never starred in Grey’s Anatomy
Calendar
March 16, 2006
On the Right Track
MADtv’s funny man clears it up: He never starred in Grey’s Anatomy
Calendar
March 3, 2005
Sole Sister
The Alley Theatre's Bad Dates is a shoe-in
Best of Houston
September 23, 2004
Best Place to Pretend You're in Blade Runner
The Alley Theatre's Bad Dates is a shoe-in
News
February 12, 2004
Ship Wrecked
A Houston firm certified the oil tanker Prestige as good to go. It broke apart in the Atlantic, causing the worst environmental disaster in Spanish history.
News
January 8, 2004
Training Day
Light rail's first day brings one high after another
Best of Houston
September 25, 2003
Best Activist
Tom Bazan
Best of Houston
September 25, 2003
Best Performance by Out-of-Towners
Charlie Victor Romeo, Collective: Unconscious
News
October 11, 2001
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.
Best of Houston
September 21, 2000
Best Patio
The Terrace on Main, Warwick Hotel
News
February 17, 2000
Letters
The Terrace on Main, Warwick Hotel
News
April 18, 1996
Stadia Watch
The Terrace on Main, Warwick Hotel
News
February 3, 1994
Just Don't Breathe It
What Houstonians can -- and probably won't -- do to clean up the air they drive through
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