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The Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority will hold two public hearings at noon and 6 p.m. on Thurdsay, April 14 to discuss the modification of three local bus routes through the new Gulfgate Transit Center and other service modifications. The
meetings will be held in the second-floor board room of the
METRO Administration Building at 1900 Main Street in
Houston. The proposed service changes, if approved, will
go into effect Sunday, May 29. METRO
plans to modify the 5 Southmore, 36 Lawndale and 101 Hobby
Airport Express routes to serve the new Gulfgate Transit
Center at 7400 South Loop East, south of Gulfgate Center mall.
The
$2.1 million facility is being financed with 80 percent
federal funds and 20 percent local funds. In addition, the
owners of the Gulfgate Center mall and METRO will fund the
reconstruction of an existing pedestrian bridge between the
mall and the transit center property that will allow bus
patrons to safely cross Loop 610. For
additional information on the proposed service changes, call
METROLine at (713) 635-4000 or visit the METRO Web site at http://www.ridemetro.org.
METRO
recently honored two employees for their outstanding work.
Clement C. Hodge
has been named METRO’s Top Operator of the Month for
February and Ariel Tamez has been named METRO’s Top Tech of
the Month for February. Hodge
drives various routes as needed out of the Hiram Clarke Bus
Operating Facility. He began his career at METRO as a
METROLift customer service representative in 1999 and now
works as a bus operator. Tamez
has been a METRO employee since 2001, when he started working
as a service lane technician at the Fallbrook Bus Operating
Facility. Tamez now works as a cleaner at METRO’s Field
Service Center. Hyperlinks will work if this document is read Online
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