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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.
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.
Problems with non-MetroRAIL construction projects downtown, as well as with the axle-counters used to regulate light rail traffic, subsequently pushed back the opening of the line to April 2015, [14] [15] and subsequently to May 23, 2015. [4] New plans are in the works for the connection from palm center and the Hobby airport.
Magnolia Park Transit Center is a light rail and bus station in Houston, Texas on the METRORail system. It is the eastern terminus of the Green Line and is located on Harrisburg Boulevard at 70th Street in Magnolia Park, in the East End. Nearby the station are many restaurants and taquerias.
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The Green Line [6] is a 3.3 mi (5.3 km) [4] [5] [7] METRORail light rail/streetcar [1] line operated by METRO in Houston, Texas, serving the East End area. The first seven-station segment of this line opened on May 23, 2015. [3]
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The METRO Solutions Transit System Plan (aka Metro Solutions Plan) was placed before voters on the November 4, 2003, ballot. One of the six proposed light rail segments as a Phase 2 to expand the Main Street line, then under construction, was the "Westpark" corridor, extending from the existing Wheeler station west to Hillcroft; 6.6 mi (10.6 km) and 4 stations. [2]