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Opinion: Houston s silver spine - connections not budget make new bus line a model for future
Christof Spieler
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The Silver Line buses waiting to take riders southbound Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, at Northwest Transit Center in Houston. Started Sunday, the line is Houston’s first foray into bus rapid transit. Vehicles are using mostly dedicated lanes to ferry riders from the new Lower Uptown Westpark Transit Center, going along Post Oak Boulevard and eventually to the Northwest Transit Center with eight stops in between.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
During the pandemic, it’s easy to miss how Houston is changing. Post Oak Boulevard is once again lit up for the holidays, but the star is Metro’s Silver Line bus rapid transit (BRT) in Uptown. What is it like to use the Silver Line and does it represent the future? When I served on the Metro board from 2010-2018 and had a role in oversight of that line’s development but now I wanted to exper