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A potentially earth-shattering news item we've neglected to mention for a couple of days: Parallel parking markings downtown can be confusing! At least that's the case according to KHOU, which took to the streets earlier this week to find out what's really going on with the parking spots marked by numbered arrows pointing to one or two parking meters that serve the whole block. Apparently, people have trouble figuring that system out: more ›

Here's something you might never have realized: In 2005, Metro paid $6 million for a unique safety system designed to keep people from entering HOV lanes headed in the wrong direction. The system had two lines of defense: First, traditional red-and-white barricade arms that would signal when a lane was closed in a particular direction, and second, guillotine-like devices that straddled the lanes and would lower nets to catch cars going the wrong way. It's an interesting concept, though the whole net thing sounds a little too Wile E. Coyote to be true — and it seems the Metro system didn't work out much better than most of those Acme contraptions in the cartoons. As KHOU reports, Metro has pulled the plug on the safety system just a year and a half after it was installed. more ›

This may be one of the strangest stories about a foreign object on a freeway that we've heard lately: In southwest Houston last night, a couch in the middle of the Southwest Freeway caused a car to crash into a furniture store. more ›

It's a red-letter day for commuters on the southwest side. That's right: The northbound Spur 527 opened this morning, meaning those pesky traffic backups we've sat in for the past two years as we tried to get downtown on the Southwest Freeway have vanished. more ›

Three local TV stations have refused to run an ad targeting Tom DeLay, saying the claims in the ad — which links DeLay with super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff — can't be substantiated. The move came after the Delay campaign sent letters to the stations threatening them with legal action if they ran the 30-second spots. more ›