Transportation

Michael Berlinghof says the most dangerous part of his regular bike ride is the last twenty feet. When he tows a trailer behind his bicycle from his Robindell home to the grocery store, he must cross Bissonnet St. Residents along a seven-mile stretch of Bissonnet (Hillcroft to Dairy Ashford) say

One day, you may be able to bike or walk your dog all the way from the Sharpstown Park Golf Course to the far side of downtown Houston. Theoretically, you’re able to do that now (if you don’t mind walking on broken sidewalks and constantly crossing parking lot

Leer en Español On Thursday, 8/24/23, METRO’s board voted unanimously to approve what METRO calls the “locally preferred alternative” route (LPA) for the Gulfton Corridor Project. The route would extend the METRORapid Silver Line, a special bus service that runs through the Galleria area in its own

I didn’t pay much attention to public transportation—until somebody hit my car and messed up my transmission. I didn’t have the time (or budget) to go car shopping right away. I was wrapping up a semester of teaching five college classes, preparing to teach a summer class

Half an hour after sunset, I trekked the shadowed sidewalks of Gulfton. My adventure began on July 18 with an experimental trip on the Silver Line, which METRO plans to extend from the Galleria, through Gulfton, to the east side of Sharpstown. I was a bit disappointed by the mostly