Metro's incompetence, your commute

BlogHouston wonders what could happen when Ed Emmett decides he's had enough of the traffic snarls that have plagued Houston since Yesterday and decides that "something, must be done".....

(from Kevin Whited of Blog Houston)

Mayor White, who seems to fancy himself an urban General Patton (really!), might consider directing a profanity or two towards METRO regarding their poor planning at some point. Or perhaps Judge Emmett could be dispatched simply to fix things; he seems actually to get results.

"something, must be done"...

(from Richard Connelly of the Houston Press)

County Judge Ed Emmett apparently has the same thought.

At 1 p.m. he opened a meeting with county, city, Metro and TxDOT officials hoping to find a way to solve the traffic mess.

His spokesman Joe Stinebaker tells Hair Balls:

The judge is hoping to get Metro to open HOV lanes, to speed up work on broken street lights, to get extra law-enforcement from all available agencies at heavily congested feeder intersections with broken street lights and to implement whatever other actions can be taken to reduce or eliminate the heavy congestion that has arisen yesterday and today. In terms of timing, the individual agencies would probably have to speak to what their reactions have been so far, but this was the first opportunity the judge had to get everybody together since the situation first became apparent yesterday.

We'll see what comes of it. Moments after that message, Stinebaker claimed at least partial victory: "Apparently the meeting has already done some good, because I just found out Metro is skedding a newser at 2:30 for an announcement on their HOV lanes."

I wonder if any dirty words were used?

More importantly, who's that milquetoast, pretty-boy Perry going to apologize to THIS time?

At the end of all of this mess I'm going to give out grades. If Mayor White and Ed Emmett are at the top of the class then Metro Police Chief Tom Lambert and Rick Perry are duking it out for the bottom rung of the ladder as we speak.

Hey Lambert: What part of "disaster recovery plan" do you not understand?