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Critics blast (Houston) Metro's $2.6 billion bond plan (~4x what voters approved in 2003)
Houston Chronicle ^ | March 9, 2010, 11:25PM | BRADLEY OLSON and MIKE SNYDER

Posted on 03/10/2010 12:12:17 PM PST by a fool in paradise

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To: Willie Green

A rail to Galveston. Reminds me of when someone wrote to Al Gore to save the Texas Eagle train.

“Thank you for your letter regarding the protection of the Texas eagle....”


21 posted on 03/10/2010 12:43:24 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: a fool in paradise

Well, at least yours runs. In Austin, we’ve been paying for rail service for two years and it still isn’t open to the public. But that hasn’t stopped them from lobbying for a second train route.


22 posted on 03/10/2010 12:46:34 PM PST by OrangeHoof ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Bend over suckahs".)
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I thought in Austin there is a line that goes from the convention center a few blocks into downtown.

For years we heard that Houston’s rail had collisions with cars because Houstonians didn’t know how to drive. Then we had a high profile collision between our death train and a Metro bus.


23 posted on 03/10/2010 12:51:04 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: a fool in paradise

Do you remember what his response to the people dying on I45 during Rita Was?
The outragous stunt of running to the Gallery Furniture Fire,was typical of his level of priorities.
You know don’t you that the cameras and safe tow thing was to cover the financial nightmare his predecessor Brown, yet ANOTHER Clinton lackey left to Houston.
I mean come on. a month before Brown leaves office he gives all his appointees a big raise. Then what happens they all retire with their retirments based on the last month salary.
Even a blind man can figure out that one.
NOTHING and I mean NOTHING that Dums conjure up, Metro included, ALWAYS has a big payoff for Some group. And who pays, WE DO. This Metro thing reeks of the Enron type deals with the Clinton Administration.


24 posted on 03/10/2010 12:53:18 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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I think Mayor Brown’s corrupt administration may extend into this scandal:

Monica Conyers Gets 37 Months In Prison!
WXYZ ^ | 03/10/10 | Various
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468141/posts

“Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers was sentenced for her role in a city corruption scandal. Conyers pleaded guilty to conspiracy last summer and admitted taking cash in exchange for supporting a $1.2 billion dollar contract with Houston-based Synagro Technologies.”


26 posted on 03/10/2010 12:59:42 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: a fool in paradise

I was out of Houston , living in Dallas for a year. It looks like they made a turn at Cummings to Westpark. Glad the residents didn’t lose their property values, from this anyway.

No doubt. We have been 10 years under the nightmare of Clinton cronies. When will people EVER wake up. Made the collapse of the oil industry along with NASA MIGHT shake them up. One can HOPE for CHANGE.


28 posted on 03/10/2010 1:07:06 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: Willie Green

Except of course it won’t get more riders anywhere equal to the cost of the more boondoggle. They’re going to spend billions to build more rail that will be ridden by thousands wasting the money of all.

Light rail should be declared a crime, it’s a blatant ripoff, all politicians that support it should be immediately impeached and thrown out, don’t even let them hang around long enough for the next election, they’ll just find something else to screw up.


29 posted on 03/10/2010 1:12:44 PM PST by discostu (wanted: brick, must be thick and well kept)
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When interacting with them, it becomes apparent that Houston Metro is simply a make-work operation designed to employ the lowest examples of our society. And by “examples” I mean racist, ghetto trash that are openly hostile to white people, while at the same time being dependant upon them to get their jobs done. The incompetence that goes on in their building, in all departments, is amazing.


30 posted on 03/11/2010 9:03:18 AM PST by I Buried My Guns
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