http://nancysims.com/cityofhouston/the-metro-referendum/ by Nancy Sims. Parent, Public Relations, Professor, Pundit, Ponderer. Thoughts about my world. Fri, 16 Nov 2018 18:44:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://nancysims.com/cityofhouston/the-metro-referendum/comment-page-1/#comment-19322 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:13:27 +0000 http://nancysims.com/?p=675#comment-19322 the threat was if the city did not agree the county would go to the Legislature and take away the majority power on the Metro board and move it to the county and small cities. So the power has already shifted to the county with the Mayor and Metro chair ignoring the wishes of the voters in the 2003 referendum agrred not to spend any more money on rail and abandoning a very important transit corridor the University Line. Not only would this line connect every major employment center to other rail lines but Montrose has experiemced incresed density because of the University Line . There have also been no discussions with the Montrose neighborhoods as to how this will impact the community and what plans are being made to replace the loss of the University Line…

]]> http://nancysims.com/cityofhouston/the-metro-referendum/comment-page-1/#comment-19310 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:14:24 +0000 http://nancysims.com/?p=675#comment-19310 It is not a simple issue at all. Politically savvy pro-transit types could conceivably still vote YES to avoid the showdown in the 83rd Lege. What’s your stand on that? Will a NO vote really mean METRO gets to operate on the whole cent?

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