![]() ![]() “This is the crown jewel of MetroNext,” Metro board member Jim Robinson said of the line, referring to the agency’s $7.5 billion long-range plan. Though preliminary, officials said the approval is a major step for luring federal funding, as well as building the route as soon as possible. Setting the preferred route does not lock the agency into that exact path, but instead acts as the goal as design continues, leading to eventual public response to a proposal. Metropolitan Transit Authority board members are scheduled Thursday to approve a preferred alternative for the 25-mile University Line, the mammoth route that acts somewhat as an east-west spine of the region’s future transit plans. The largest and most-sought segment of Metro’s planned bus rapid transit expansion in Houston is poised next week to officially move from being just lines on a map to the starting line - even if construction remains years away. Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer Show More Show Less Wheeler Transit Center, where the Red Line light rail and various bus routes cross is a major hub along a planned University bus rapid transit line that could proceed next week. ![]() People move through the Wheeler Transit Center on April 21, 2021, in Houston. Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer Show More Show Less 2 of2 ![]() ![]()
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