[VOA]

People were actually having to wait for the next train," said Steven Hypes, who road light-rail train.

Welcome to Dubya's guest-worker "vision thing" for America.
I say this as an Anglo who on more than a couple occassions has had to wait for
a second bus because the first just blows by me, loaded to the "gunnels" with the
low-cost (probably most undocumented) domestics that keep the homes of the elites
of Los Angeles clean.

The only thing that would make the situation even worse?
If the Democrats "vision thing" for total immigration amnesty became our future,
not Dubya's guest-worker plan.

[muawiyah]

"People were actually having to wait for the next train,"

Huh, guys ~ this happens with EVERY form of mass transit. It's all quite normal with light rail, heavy rail, subway, surface, trolly, or bus system!

People who regularly commute via any of these systems can tell you.

It would appear that few Freepers (leastwise not those on this thread) are aware of what really happens ~ that's my take on the various attempts to attribute crowding on mass transit systems to unbridled immigration.

Have you ever been on the Tokyo subway? There really aren't any appreciable numbers of immigrants crowding up that particular system. They had "pushers" to fill the cars!

Everyone's expectations for Houston's light rail system would seem to be misplaced.

The idea of just shutting down the system if the cars get crowded is absolutely incredible. Then there's this mention of the authority of the "officers" ~ visions of worker trains from SOWETO to JOBURG popped into my mind.

Looks to me like it's long overdue for "W" to send the Army into Houston to re-establish a Republican form of government, eh?!

[GeronL]

People were actually having to wait for the next train," said Steven Hypes, who road light-rail train.

If this reporter can't spell r-o-d-e, then I feel very sorry for Houston news junkies.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

You would think full trains was the whole goal of mass transit, get people out of their cars and on the train.

Most cities want people on the trains.