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Downtown Transit Center (Houston) is a bus and light rail transportation center in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States, operated by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (METRO). It includes an island platformed METRORail light rail station and bays for bus service. The station was opened on January 1, 2004. [1]
Map Showing Lines of the Houston Electric Company c 1907 METRORail along the Main Street Corridor in Downtown A METRO bus driving through the University of Houston campus on Cullen Boulevard. The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas , or METRO, provides public transportation in the form of buses, trolleys, and lift vans.
The Magnolia Park TC includes access to the METRORail Green Line which runs west towards the Theater District in Downtown Houston. The Magnolia Park TC serves as the eastern terminus of the line. The transit center features local bus service, a pickup/drop-off drive, passenger canopy, B-Cycle bike share kiosk, and a Park & Ride parking lot.
[citation needed] Metro also operates express bus routes on the Houston region's freeway high-occupancy vehicle lanes, which stop at park-and-ride lots. Prior to the construction of Metrorail, Metro consisted of the largest all-bus fleet in the United States, only because Houston was the largest major city devoid of any rail transit since 1990.
METRORail began service on January 1, 2004, with 16 stations from Fannin South station to UH–Downtown station. [3] The line was extended north to Northline Transit Center with 8 new stations on December 21, 2013, as part of the North/Red Line Extension. [4] 13 stations were added on May 23, 2015, with the opening of the Green and Purple lines ...
The METRORapid Silver Line is a bus rapid transit line in Houston, Texas operated by METRO.Opened August 23, 2020, [2] the line connects the Uptown area of Houston, with dedicated lanes over nearly the entire length of the corridor. [3]
It is the oldest line in the METRORail system, with the first 7.5-mile (12.1 km) section of the line between Fannin South and UH–Downtown opening on January 1, 2004. Construction on a 5.3-mile (8.5 km) extension to the north [ 5 ] began July 2009, and was expected to continue until 2014, [ 6 ] though the opening date was later pushed back to ...
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