[nndl] MetroRail In The House?

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The Capital Metro project once called Commuter Rail, now MetroRail,
is growing. For our part, the Northfield neighborhood appears to be
getting its own railroad siding.

On the east side of Clarkson Avenue, between 51st and 52nd streets,
construction of a railroad siding has already begun. Sub-contractors
who are building switches onto the existing railroad tracks told us
this short siding (approx. 350 feet - destined for what is now the
ditch between the tracks and Clarkson) will be sufficient for one of
the two-car MetroRail trains to pull over as another goes by.

Capital Metro once suggested more stations be added to the nine named
MetroRail stops. If MetroRail cars will be pausing near 51st Street
and Airport Boulevard (a major east-west artery and a core urban
transit corridor), might passengers some day get on and off there?
Might a trolley running between Airport and Mueller make more sense
than Mueller people having to rely on Capital Metro's 6.5 mile
downtown streetcar circulator system? We're in a new mass-transit
paradigm; change will come fast.

What do we think about a 51st Street train station? If the North Loop
Planning Team succeeds in getting 51st Street (from IH35 to Caswell)
re-zoned, the neighborhood should be ready for the next step; to
fight or defend having a train station in the house.

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