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We're starting to reconsider our plan to apply for a job as a Metro bus driver: On Tuesday, two men attacked a bus driver after arguing with her over the fare, marking the second assault on a Metro driver this week. According to the Chronicle, the men — who appeared inebriated — got into a dispute over fares with the driver and made a threat against her, then walked back into the bus. About 10...

going to want to get in on this kind of Metro-backed development.

Thousands of people have gotten citations from the city's red-light camera system since it went online back in September — so you'd expect that some of them would be public employees driving public vehicles, right? Right. According to the Chronicle, more than 100 government and school vehicles have been tagged running red lights, resulting in some $8,000 in fines. The Chronicle got the information under the Texas Public Information Act; though the 100 citations are a very tiny fraction of the 34,000 issued so far, they're kind of troublesome. "Anytime anyone runs a red light, we have a concern about that," HISD spokesman Terry Abbott said (the school district has gotten five camera citations). "It's the same as speeding or anything else. We have policies in place to discipline drivers who don't follow the law."

Wow, we guess Houston really does have a big-city mass transit system after all: Monday afternoon, a fight that began on the Main Street Square MetroRail platform led to a man slashing another man in the throat with a box cutter. In the middle of the afternoon. In the middle of downtown.

We talked the other day about MetroRail's ongoing problem with electricity leaking into the ground and claims that the stray current could be undermining the foundations of highways that cross the rail line. And now there's something else: According to KHOU, the Texas Medical Center is testing the foundations of several hospitals to make sure they haven't been affected. Stephen Swinson, president of Thermal Energy Corp., said tests of the foundations of a dozen buildings,...

So the MetroRail line is leaking electricity. It's nothing new: Metro admitted to the problem last year, and since then it's come up more than once. But what's news is that the problem continues to be a problem, and according to community watchdog Tom Bazan, it could bring the Pierce Elevated down on our heads (assuming, of course, we were standing underneath it at the time). Bazan is worried that the electricity leaking from the...

So, did you hear about the soccer doubleheader at Reliant Stadium last night? We'll bet you did if you were trying to drive anywhere near the stadium — according to reports, the 75,000 fans who packed Reliant to see the Houston Dynamo, Los Angeles Galaxy, FC Barcelona and Mexico's Club América caused a world-class traffic jam. The first game kicked off at 7 p.m., and though the Chronicle reported HPD spokesman Alvin Wright said traffic...

Last week, a Metro bus hit a woman and her daughter crossing the street near Courthouse Square; yesterday, another bus mowed down another pedestrian at Metro's trasit center in the Texas Medical Center. The man stepped into the pedestrian crosswalk, "so the operator will be at fault," said Raequel Roberts, a spokeswoman for Metro. The pedestrian was taken to an area hospital, "but his injuries do not appear to be life-threatening," Roberts said. The accident...