Culture Map reports on George Greanias' decision to resign as CEO.
Greanias was brought on board to help guide Metro's development of light rail. The recent approval of a referendum that diverted some funding to other transit projects is believed to have led to his decision, even to his being possibly pushed out of the office.
With our renewed attention to local politics in class I'll be building up information about Metro, as well as the overall issues about how to handle transportation issues in the greater Houston area. This is an especially difficult issue because while we all share a need for efficient and effective transportation, there is little agreement over what that entails. Even more difficult is the fact that the greater metro are is composed of small autonomous governing units that can make their own decisions about transportation - and there is little reason why these decisions make work together in a rational way.
Self government is seldom efficient government.
Some useful links:
- METRO.
- Wikipedia: METROrail.
- Support Houston Transit.
