Topic – Metro

Wolff: METRO shouldn’t eliminate fares

Rejects Parker's suggestion

Steve Hawley, Feb 19, 10.

The METRO chairman said that Mayor Parker's suggestion that the agency consider eliminating all fares to better serve its customers would lead to "catastrophe."

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METRO publishes University Line FEIS

Record of Decision next step

Jay Blazek Crossley, Jan 25, 10.

METRO has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the University Corridor Light Rail Transit Line

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METRO Chairman believes agency should reclaim mobility funds

Needed for 1st-class transit

Vilas Bhuchar, Jan 25, 10.

David Wolff, the soon-to-depart METRO chairman, thinks it's time for serious discussions about allowing the agency to retain its one-cent sales tax.

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Mayor Parker announces transition leadership

Focus on METRO, transportation

Jay Blazek Crossley, Jan 13, 10.

Mayor Annise Parker announced the leadership of the 8 committees that will be the focus of her transition efforts, focusing on METRO.

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METRO devotes $5 million to assist small businesses

Mitigation eases construction

Jay Blazek Crossley, Dec 21, 09.

METRO board devotes $5 million to grants to small businesses impacted by light rail construction, one of many recommendations from Houston Tomorrow research.

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Galveston to rebuild fishing pier, examine potential transit district

Rebuilding after Hurricane Ike

Steve Hawley, Dec 18, 09.

The 61st Street Pier was destroyed by Hurricane Ike. Any transit district would likely be created before the 2010 Census, when Galveston will lose population.

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METRO chair plans to resign

Parker has been critical

Steve Hawley, Dec 18, 09.

David Wolff, who has served for six years under Bill White's administration, plans to step aside around the time Annise Parker takes office.

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Wolff on transit for multiple centers

Calls for full sales tax share

David Crossley, Dec 07, 09.

METRO chairman David Wolff, in interview, says job of weaving transit into network of freeways is difficult - and wants METRO's whole share of the sales tax

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University Line light rail moves forward

Next: preliminary engineering

Jay Blazek Crossley, Dec 03, 09.

The Federal Transit Administration has approved the University Line light rail project for preliminary engineering pending a 10-day Congressional review

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METRO Chair David Wolff calls for “restoring METRO’s birthright”

Voters okayed tax for transit

Vilas Bhuchar, Nov 17, 09.

Wolff discusses plans to build 5 additional light-rail lines and emphasizes how much more METRO could do if it actually received all of its 1 cent sales tax

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