It was about this time one year ago I saw a METRO Facebook post about this video. Yeah, Mary Sit at METRO first posted it to the METRO website in late July 2013. I did not see it until the month following.
But when I did, my life was made better, and it is a moment that will stay with me for a very long time. Seeing government actually doing something the people could really get behind and that would directly improve their lives excited me to no end. It is this excitement, created from the video, that gave birth to this blog and on-hiatus podcast.
It has been an exciting trip, and it's only going to get better. System Reimagining will (99.999% sure) will be approved by the Board in September with hopeful-implementation in June of next year at which point our Board can look to the future of the agency past their tenure, which should end in 2016.
2004-2010 was at METRO the worst of times, perhaps. 2010-present-and-beyond-hopefully = the best of times: a can-do Board filled with good people with good common sense who actually care about our city, multi-cities, and region enough to think boldly while doing their due diligence in asking the right questions.
A all-too-rare thing in government.
Jeff Ragsdale's musings on all-things mass-transit in the greater Houston-Galveston area
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