[Barney Gumble]

Although I was eager for a public transportation system, the Metro Rail isn't the way to go. It's going to stop a lot of traffic and who can ride it in its current state? People who live near the one rail?

Who in Houston actually kid themselves that they would get the Olympics. No industrial city will get the olympics. Please, it was just an excuse so "Out of Town" Brown could spend millions of taypayer money. He built 3 new stadiums in about 4 years! That's unheard of! What was wrong with the Compaq center? No corporate boxes

[Allegra]

Who in Houston actually kid themselves that they would get the Olympics. No industrial city will get the olympics. Please, it was just an excuse so "Out of Town" Brown could spend millions of taypayer money. He built 3 new stadiums in about 4 years!

I think (but I am wrong a couple times a year...) that those stadium proposals were voted in through a referendum called Proposition 1 under Bob Lanier. It passed by a razor-thin margin.

But you're right about the current Metro line under construction. The reason used for that was the potential 2012 Olympics. C'mon, how viable is a line from downtown to Reliant Park? They're snowing us with that one. And not one person with any brains thought Houston was going to host the Olympics. (Thank goodness.)

The whole mass transportation plan needs a much more extensive look than it's getting. We need to defeat this current proposal and let some people who know what they're talking about take the whole idea back to the drawing board.