Sooner&RiceGrad Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Who here thinks Metro Rail is a pretty bland name? Howabout if we named it the Hart? (Like Dart, but better.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Who here thinks Metro Rail is a pretty bland name? Howabout if we named it the Hart? (Like Dart, but better.) <tosses eggs and tomatos at OP> BOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmainguy Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Before there was METRO there was HART [Houston Area Rapid Transit] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Before there was METRO there was HART [Houston Area Rapid Transit]remember HOUTRAN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaTrain Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Who here thinks Metro Rail is a pretty bland name? Howabout if we named it the Hart? (Like Dart, but better.) ...and rhyming with SF's BART (Bay Area) and MARTA (Metro Atlanta). I think S&RG's reason for considering this is because Houston METRO already has to share the transit brand name 'METRO' with LA, DC, SF, Seattle, Phoenix, Miami-Dade, St. Louis, Mobile and Cincinnati as those use it to operate buses and rail (some cities) there. Possible names to change to: *Houston MAX -- the MAX stands for a hybrid meaning of MAin Street EXpress and Metropolitan Area Xpress. "Say, let's take MAX to Relaint Park, whatcha say??" Get it. HOV Bus Routes can use this brand too: let's ride the HOV MAX to DT to work 9-5. *METRO Route 700 -- it don't make no sense to call it the Red Line when all these other rail lines won't be around for another ten years to use all these colors. *Main STreet Rapid Modern Trolley. Hell, all of the line is on the street, but at least it ain't Mickinney Avenue Trolley, Philly's SEPTA Surface Subway or Muni Metro that stops every two f***in blocks. *Houston's Little Train That Could After all, there is nothing "Metropolitan" about a seven-and-a-half mile rail line at all. It stays inside Houston forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooner&RiceGrad Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 <tosses eggs and tomatos at OP>BOO! C'mon... have a hart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ V Lawrence Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Who here thinks Metro Rail is a pretty bland name? Howabout if we named it the Hart? (Like Dart, but better.) I say we call it the "Crash Course"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I say we call it the "Crash Course"... I say this topic is lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AftonAg Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I say this topic is lame. I think it should be called MIRTH - Moving Idiots Rapidly Through Houston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I am assuming you will be one of the riders too then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AftonAg Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 I am assuming you will be one of the riders too then! Puma - you must at least admit that, regardless of the source, that it was funny. Which was all that I intended. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Wasnt Houston's original rail system called the "Inter-Urban?"That sounds almost Euro-sheik cool (kinda German) And since this train wont see the suburbs for a long time, Interurban seems like a perfect fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 How about Astro Shuttle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonfella Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 I have always wanted it to be HART (Houston Area Rapid Transit) with a heart logo. We are home of the world's largest med center and seemed all too appropriate. Plus, Houston, after Katrina, has a very big heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Worst transit name I've seen is "TANK" - Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky.There's also SEPTA - SouthEastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority. But a lot of people call it "Septic" anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Wasnt Houston's original rail system called the "Inter-Urban?"That sounds almost Euro-sheik cool (kinda German) And since this train wont see the suburbs for a long time, Interurban seems like a perfect fit.I've always liked the old "Inter-Urban" name. But that was back when the cities throughout our region acted more independently of one another. These days, "Intra-Urban" would be more accurate.But what I'd really like to see is my IRON TRIPOD concept implemented, fed by existing and proposed mass transit systems serving the Central Business Districts of each major Texas city. The maglev would be the Interurban. The local transit would be the Intraurban."...I live above Houston Grand Central and commute each day via the Texas Interurban and then by the Dallas Intraurban to Mockingbird Station." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 LOL @ Septic.And Hillsborough County's (Tampa) transit system is known as the Hartline or HART (Hillsbourgh Area Regional Transit).http://www.hartline.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas911 Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 How about Fast Area Rapid Transit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonfella Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 How about Fast Area Rapid Transit? There you go Texas 911..... FART perfect. LOL @ Septic.And Hillsborough County's (Tampa) transit system is known as the Hartline or HART (Hillsbourgh Area Regional Transit). http://www.hartline.org/ but they have no HEART Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonfella Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 LOL @ Septic.And Hillsborough County's (Tampa) transit system is known as the Hartline or HART (Hillsbourgh Area Regional Transit). http://www.hartline.org/ Rats. Naturally HART would have been used already. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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