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Subject:
METRORail Collision #48 - Why Now Does METRO Start Admitting
To Tram Operator Error
Date:
Sat, 3 Jul 2004 06:31:32 -0500
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2660603
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I find this
revelation, after the 48th METRORail Collision, and after METRO
has filed the application for billions in federal money to start
their version of a "Big Dig" subway system, interesting.
Would such admissions, prior to the June 30th filing made
to the FTA, have jeopardized the eligibility status of METRO's
rail schemes?
Will METRO now admit that it concocted the ridership numbers
for the first six months, going so far as devising a way to allow
"free fares" for many daily riders working in
the Medical Center area?
As the public schools became the classic example for METRO
with the federal school lunch program; the higher school
districts inflated the number of children enrolled for the school
lunches, the more massive a "windfall" they would
receive. Billions and billions in federal funds for the educrats.
METRO surely has learned, by routing as many as half the
routes in the service area so as to force the poor and minority,
bus transit dependent riders onto the tram, and to knowingly
make the tram a "Free Fare" ride virtually for every
one who rides in the Medical Center these initial six months so as
to boost the "body count" for the FTA rail funding
application. They too can expect billions and billions, and
billions of federal money to squander on their addiction
to rail.
Who's watching out for whom?
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 online article:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2660603
July 3, 2004,
12:38AM
First Metro train
operator blamed for crash
By
LUCAS WALL
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
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