The average daily weekday ridership in Houston is 39,500. Houston operates a fleet of 18 Avanto light-rail vehicles built by Siemens. Each vehicle is 96 foot long and has four low platfrm doors per side and has a capacity of 72 seated and 148 standing passengers.
The arrival of METRORail came 64 years after the previous streetcar system was shut down, which left Houston as the largest city in the United States without a rail system since 1990 when the Blue Line opened in Los Angeles. METRORail is operated by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, or METRO for short.
Being the second major light rail service in Texas (first is the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system) is the METRORail enough for the residents of Houston? As of April 15, 2006, there have been 129 crashes officially confirmed. One crash has resulted in a fatality; the fatal crash occurred on May 10, 2005 and involved a man in a pickup truck who ran through a red light at the Jefferson Street intersection and collided with a train, killing the driver of the truck instantly and causing minor injuries to several passengers of the train.
There are several possible reasons for the high accident rate; an often proffered explanation is that the entire 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of track runs in city streets unlike systems with private right-of-ways. METRO has consistently blamed driver error as the cause of the high collision rate and the transit agency’s police department regularly tickets motorists who cross paths with the train.
Since its inception, METRORail has been the source of several political controversies in Houston. Taking into consideration the rising gas prices and exhausting supply for global resources, Houston needs more methods of public transport.
The METRORail is a commonly used transportation system for college students and middle-class workers who do not want to be stuck in traffic in peak hours. A number of apartment complexes have been built in close proximity to the METRORail. Some of these apartments include Gables, Waterford Square, Scotland Yard, Broadstone etc. (insert link). With growing Houston population we need more METRorails with mess number of crashes.
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The Houston Zoo is a 55 acre zoological park located within Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States. Housing over 4,500 animals belonging to over 900 species, the zoo receives 1.6 million visitors each year and is the seventh most visited zoo in the nation (Isn’t that awesome!) The zoo is accredited by The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) assuring the highest standards of animal care and husbandry.
The Houston Zoo was first established in September 1922 in Sam Houston Park, near downtown and then was relocated to it’s present day location in Herman Park (I wonder how they relocated the animals). Its first zookeeper was Hans Nagle, who began working at Hermann Park in 1922 and later became the Houston Zoo’s first director when it formed in 1925 (Now that’s what I am talking about!).
The zoo supports forty SSP conservation projects that assist in the survival of threatened wildlife and habitats. Wildlife conservation projects include the Houston Toad, Wyoming Toad, golden frog, Attwater’s Prairie Chicken, chimney swift, Bornean orangutans and Asian elephants, Komodo dragon, Siberian tiger, Spectacled bear, Snow leopard, Gorilla and numerous other endangered animals.
The zoo is served by bus service provided by Metro and an offsite station on the Redline of the METRORail light rail system. The Houston zoo is one of the major attractions of Houston for young and for the old. Other attractions of the Herman Park near the zoo include Hermann Park Jogging Trail, Japanese Garden, Fragrance Garden, Fishing at Bob’s Fishing Pier on McGovern Lake (You must be under 12 years old or over 65 years old and bring your own equipment), Chinese Pagoda and many more.
The residential areas in Herman Park boast multi-million dollar homes and a number of high-rise and mid-rises. Some luxurious apartments include Amalfi at Herman Park, Esplanade, The Plaza at Museum district etc.
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