For Metro Houston, the return to normal for park and ride has been uneven, leading to...
Commuters line up to board the 222 Metropolitan Transit Authority bus to downtown at the Grand Parkway park and ride, Thursday, April 14, 2022, in Katy. The park and ride features a large parking garage at the corner of Interstate 10 and the Grand Parkway that takes riders on the 222 route to downtown Houston.Alec Greenaway had some lonely days at the bus stop at the height of the pandemic.
These days, the buses are a little more full, the parking lot a little more crowded. Often, there is a small line forming at his Louisiana Street bus stop downtown, just like the old days before COVID. For the Metropolitan Transit Authority, however, the return to normal for park and ride has been uneven, leading to challenges in safely resuming service and adding back services as riders demand them while the agency addresses its own staffing needs.
Steve Swift, a longtime Grand Parkway park and ride user, since the days when users parked at the curb before a parking garage was built, said he definitely has noticed a difference on certain days. Downtown, once the mainstay of local commuter bus service, cratered, coming back only slightly since September.Houston's first bus rapid transit line carries only fraction of ridership Metro predicted
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