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Subject: METRORail Set to Propose $200+ Million/Mile Subway Segments!!!
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 05:46:22 -0500

Houstonians, grab your wallets, now that METRO tricked voters into granting both a Blank Check as well as a Taxpayer Credit Card with NO LIMIT, here it comes, a $200+ million per mile subway! If the Southeast segment, along with the east/west CBD line is to be a Subway, the construction costs alone will far exceed $1 Billion in precious taxpayer resources. There is no guarantee that this system will not flood during another heavy rain.

METRO lied to Houstonians about the Toy Train, now with 47 collisions in the first few months, and we have recently witnessed for ourselves that the tram can not operate in a few inches of street flooding!

The Lunacy continues at 1201 Louisiana. Who's watching out for whom?

Where's a cop when you need one? Where is the DA?

Houstonians want our Main Street back.

Tom Bazan
P.O. Box 2786
Houston, TX 77252

832.673.0018

BAZAN, a long-time real estate broker, appraiser and environmental consultant, is the Independent Candidate for the 18th Congressional District of Texas, running to replace Sheila Jackson-Lee

www.BazanForCongress.com

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Original article:

June 23, 2004, 6:36AM

Here's your chance to sound off on subway proposal
By LUCAS WALL
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

Take a tour: Explore Houston's new light rail system.
Residents and businesses get another chance to voice their opinions about MetroRail's next two lines during a series of five meetings that start tonight.

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