Bus Stop
A prominent story in this morning’s local paper by its chief political reporter claims that the need to “enhance security outside the Texas Capitol” is the reason behind plans to move the city’s busiest bus stop within a year. Apparently, security concerns are so serious that the State Preservation Board rejected Cap Metro’s request to delay the move an additional six months.
You can’t believe everything you read.
The truth is, pressure to move the bus stop, which is located on 11th street in front of the Capitol, has been building for years. First, the George W. Bush family objected to the early morning noise when they were living in the Governor’s Mansion cater-corner to the stop. When the Rick Perry family moved in, the new governor and his staff stepped up the pressure. Today, with the Mansion being renovated while Perry camps out west of town in $10,000 per month taxpayer digs, moving the bus stop is just part of the First Family’s home-improvement project.
Nice try. Maybe next time, the local newspaper will talk to some of the families who ride those noisy early morning buses that disturb the Governor’s beauty sleep.
Posted on December 20, 2007 – 10:37 am by APR
2 Responses to “Bus Stop”
Didn’t the Perrys try, and fail, a few years ago to get special treatment from Cap Metro, asking them to provide a van to take their daughter to school or work or someplace even though she lived across the street from this bus stop?
By Shawcross on Dec 20, 2007
“Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said a factor in the state’s requirement that the bus stop move is that buses lining up at the stop might block the south Capitol drives, potentially causing delays and wrecks”
So basically, with the reconfiguration of entrance/exits, the south gate becomes exit only. Currently, there are bus stops on the Northwest (the one they’re talking about) and Southwest corners of the intersection. It seems like if they split the bus stop up so that there was a stop at the SW, NE, and SE corners, all bus traffic could still be served at the same intersection while at the same time allowing for improved traffic flow. Of course, the state should offer to pick up the tab for constructing these new stops.
By Kedron Jerome Touvell on Dec 20, 2007