by Bill King | Feb 25, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Mobility, Rebuild Houston, TIRZ, Uptown
Sylvester Turner’s press conference on potholes this week was masterful misdirection. Most of the media headlines were that Turner claimed the City was repairing 100% of its potholes. But if you read the fine print, the City is only repairing 100% of the...
by Bill King | Jan 12, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Mobility
The recently issued annual financial report (“CAFR”) for the City once again shows that it is continuing to cut back on street reconstruction and repair, a fact that is of no surprise to Houston drivers. The CAFR shows that the amount of asphalt used in street...
by Bill King | Aug 8, 2018 | City Of Houston Finances, Ethics, Mobility
I recently returned from nearly three weeks of touring the United Kingdom and Ireland. Some of you that followed my posts about the trip on Facebook seem to have the misconception that this was a pleasure trip. I can assure you that was not the case. During the entire...
by Bill King | May 14, 2018 | Mobility
In 2001, the last year before Metro began spending money on light rail, Houstonians took over 89 million trips on Metro’s local bus service.[i] Last year, the combined trips on the local bus service and the light rail system came in at about 76 million, a decline of...
by Bill King | Apr 24, 2018 | Mobility
It is an idea that seems intuitively like it should work. Instead of us all separately driving a car to where we need to go, we’ll build some kind of transit system that will take us there. No parking. No traffic. You can read a paper on your way. ...
by Bill King | Oct 31, 2017 | Mobility, TIRZ, Uncategorized, Uptown
On Friday, HGAC’s Transportation Policy Council (TPC) tabled a funding request from the Uptown TIRZ for an additional $16 million for its Post Oak bus project. Several dozen Uptown residents attended the meeting, and several addressed the TPC, voicing their...
