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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. [2]
Opened in 1969 along with the airport, the train system was replaced in 1981 with the current WEDway system, built by WED Transportation Systems, a division of what is now known as Walt Disney Imagineering. The Subway serves approximately 240,000 passengers per month, for a yearly ridership averaging 2.9 million. [1]
[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.
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]
As of 2016 the Taiwanese airline EVA Air operates a shuttle bus service from Bush IAH to Richardson in the Dallas-Fort Worth area so DFW based customers may fly on its services to and from Houston. [58] Previously China Airlines, also a Taiwanese carrier, provided a shuttle bus service to Sugar Land and the Southwest Houston Chinatown. [59]
Skyway (formerly TerminaLink) is an automated people mover system operating at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas. The system is 0.7 miles (1.1 km) long, [2] and runs along the north side of the airport, beyond airport security. [3]
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]
Bus. SH 249 north / Holderrieth Road / Alice Road: Southern terminus of Bus. SH 249; [37] access to HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball: 21.81: 35.10: FM 2920 / Bus. SH 249 south – Tomball, Hooks Airport / Alice Road: Access to HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball: 23.26: 37.43: Brown Road / Baker Road / Zion Road: Access to Lone Star College-Tomball campus