Houston vs. Dallas Transpo

Public transportation is essential most especially in cities where all parking spots charge around 10 to 15 dollars a day. This was the very first big difference that I noticed when we moved to Houston.  The parking fee is ridiculously high that I was forced to just take the train rather than drive to downtown and pay $12 a day parking fee. Imagine how much I would be paying if I drive to downtown and park five days of every week. I will just probably consider taking the train. But taking the train does not totally unshackle me from paying parking fee because Houston Metro Park charges $3 dollars each time you park. I could not keep myself from comparing Dallas to Houston. 

Dallas Dart’s Park-n-Ride is free at anytime. Moreover, downtown parking spots charge only around $4 for the whole day.  This is one glaring differences between the two cities aside from the fact that Houston is obviously bigger than Dallas.

Another quite interesting fact to share here is that in almost a year of taking the train to downtown Dallas, I have witnessed a number of disturbing but not necessarily criminal acts of people in and out of the train. There were drunken riders who talks inside the train in such a loud voice. There were juveniles who turn up the volume of their MP3 players or smart phones playing ridiculously disturbing music. And when someone reminds them of the no-playing loud music policy in the train, they get agitated and start shouting profanities.  If the other guy is ill-tempered, a physical fight will ensued.  Whenever this situation occurs, Dallas Police will be, for sure, waiting at the next train stop ever ready to shackle the bad guy. So far, I have not seen anything of that kind yet in Houston Metro Train.

But one thing I would really want to share here is this written wisdom that captured me while waiting for the bus in the corner of Lamar St. in downtown Dallas.  The water running over it just emphasized the very thought that the writings on the wall convey. It says, "Until justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." I was still for quite a while and I pondered upon this wisdom.