Houston Light Rail Cars: No in Car Bike Racks
from Bikes on Houston’s Light Rail
For over a year, BikeHouston and Citizens Transportation have worked to get bike racks installed on the coming METRO light rail trains, which would’ve made bikes + light rail an unbeatable intermodal combo.
Despite letters from Judge Ed Emmett, all four Republican and Democratic Harris County Commissioners, and other public officials, METRO is going to place orders for the new trains on Christmas Eve 2008… without any in-cabin racks for bicycle. Our contact at the FTA, the funding agency for the trains, is extremely concerned, but FTA cannot compel METRO to order trains with bike racks.
It looks like we’ve failed at this point.