Transportation

Empty blue seats stared back at me as I sat for eleven minutes on a silver bus at the Westpark/Lower Uptown Transit Center (TC), joined only by a woman in a blue-green shirt, a man with a black suitcase, and a quarter-full Starbucks iced coffee (or tea?) abandoned on

At METRO's community meeting on June 28, 2023, signs on black easels displayed new concept drawings of the proposed Gulfton Corridor METRORapid bus line. Some locals worry that the bus line might cause street congestion by turning some regular traffic lanes into bus-only lanes. Are those fears founded?

Some residents of Sharpstown worry that METRO's proposed high-speed bus line extension would narrow Hillcroft from three lanes of regular traffic (each way) to two—or even from two to one. The project would involve building dedicated bus-only lanes in the center of Hillcroft. According to METRO Press

Leer en Español Don’t let the name “Gulfton Corridor Project” fool you. The latest proposed route for METRO’s new high-speed bus line runs on Hillcroft, right between Gulfton and Sharpstown. As a METRORapid line, it would have its own dedicated lanes. In other words, unlike typical METRO buses,