Metro Resumes Bus And Rail Service On Monday- Service To Run On Sunday Schedule To Transport Essential Personnel For Recovery Effort

September 25, 2005

METRO is resuming additional bus service on Monday (Sept. 26th) to support essential personnel needing transportation to assist the Hurricane Rita recovery effort.

An additional 34 bus routes will be in service on Monday. These are in addition to the 12 priority routes that reopened on Sunday. A list of all 46 routes is included below.

METRORail service also will resume on Monday. Frequency of rail service will be according to the Sunday schedule.

The HOV lanes on I-10, 290, I-45 North, 59 Eastex and 59 Southwest freeways will remain open 24 hours per day for inbound traffic. The HOV lane on the Gulf freeway (I-45 South) will remain open for outbound traffic until normal operations resume.

In addition, reduced Park and Ride service will be available. Park and Ride buses will depart at the top of each hour during peak morning and afternoon periods only from the following lots. There will be no midday service (9am - 3pm) or service after 7pm.

Two circulator shuttles will operate in the Texas Medical Center: the 320 TMC White and the 321 TMC Blue.

Bus and rail service for Tuesday will be announced Monday afternoon.