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The arrival of Metro light rail comes approximately sixty years after the previous streetcar system was shut down, which left Houston as the largest city in the United States without a rail system since 1990, when Los Angeles' Blue Line opened. Metro opened two additional light rail lines in 2015, the Purple (Southeast) and Green (East End) Lines.
It serves the Northwest Transit Center, 8 stations along Post Oak Boulevard in Uptown, and the Westpark/Lower Uptown Transit Center. On internal METRO documents, the METRORapid Silver Line is designated as Route 433. The line was originally planned as a 4.7-mile (7.6 km) extension of the METRORail light rail network under the name Uptown/Gold Line.
Melania Knauss Trump [a] [5] (born Melanija Knavs, [b] April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian and American former model who has been the first lady of the United States since 2025 as the wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. She previously held the role from 2017 to 2021.
At least 30 high-profile people close to Trump, or his campaign, spoke in front of approximately 19,000 people in the hours leading up to the former president’s speech.
Yuri Gripas/Bloomberg via Getty . Melania Trump speaks during a "Be Best" initiative event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, May 7, 2018
Melania Trump attends Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, in New York, U.S., October 27, 2024.
The light rail route was intended to benefit students of the University of Houston and Texas Southern University, by giving students (especially those without transportation) access to Houston's attractions and Downtown restaurants and nightlife. METRO acknowledges college students to be the biggest rider demographic for the Purple Line. [18]
President-elect Donald Trump kisses Melania Trump at an election night watch party on Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. AP “We will safeguard the heart of our republic – freedom.