Bus Lanes Proposed for Post Oak Boulevard

METRO has proposed converting some lanes along Post Oak Boulevard to be buses only.

Although, I support bus lanes in some cases, I do not support bus lanes down Post Oak Boulevard. The decision, is between more lanes for cars or more lanes for public transportation. Post Oak currently has larger vehicular traffic than public transportation or pedestrian traffic. I support bus lanes down streets that have a large amount of pedestrian or public transportation traffic.

Downtown already has a lot of bus lanes and deserves them as there are mostly pedestrian and public transportation traffic downtown. Uptown/Post Oak does not have as much pedestrian or public transportation traffic. On the day Uptown does have large amounts of public transportation traffic, it would warrant bus lanes to help relieve congestion. The issue here is whether to favor vehicular traffic or pedestrian/public transportation traffic. At this point, for Post Oak, we need to favor vehicular traffic as that is where the traffic demand currently is, for that road.