Transit surges during major concerts and sporting events are becoming a trend, prompting cities to add specialized transit service to handle extra crowds.
Houston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (Metro) is taking lessons from recent surges in transit use during Taylor Swift concerts, adding more trains and shuttle buses to downtown in anticipation of hometown heroine Beyoncé’s show at NRG Park this weekend, writes Dug Begley in the Houston Chronicle.
“This isn’t so much Plan B, as much as Plan Bey.”
Metro spokesperson Tracy Jackson said the agency is adding shuttle buses to take people leaving the event to Central Station Main to avoid overcrowding on the NRG Park platform. “In April, Swifties surged Metro use for the three-night stint of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at NRG. For the three days, Metro logged 136,000 light rail trips, of which 35,000 were attributed to the Swift shows, transit officials said.”
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