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The average daily weekday ridership in Houston is 39,500. Houston operates a fleet of 18 Avanto light-rail vehicles built by Siemens. Each vehicle is 96 foot long and has four low platfrm doors per side and has a capacity of 72 seated and 148 standing passengers.
The arrival of METRORail came 64 years after the previous streetcar system was shut down, which left Houston as the largest city in the United States without a rail system since 1990 when the Blue Line opened in Los Angeles. METRORail is operated by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, or METRO for short.

Being the second major light rail service in Texas (first is the  Dallas Area Rapid Transit system) is the METRORail enough for the residents of Houston? As of April 15, 2006, there have been 129 crashes officially confirmed. One crash has resulted in a fatality; the fatal crash occurred on May 10, 2005 and involved a man in a pickup truck who ran through a red light at the Jefferson Street intersection and collided with a train, killing the driver of the truck instantly and causing minor injuries to several passengers of the train.

There are several possible reasons for the high accident rate; an often proffered explanation is that the entire 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of track runs in city streets unlike systems with private right-of-ways. METRO has consistently blamed driver error as the cause of the high collision rate and the transit agency’s police department regularly tickets motorists who cross paths with the train.

Since its inception, METRORail has been the source of several political controversies in Houston. Taking into consideration the rising gas prices and exhausting supply for global resources, Houston needs more methods of public transport.
The METRORail is a commonly used transportation system for college students and middle-class workers who do not want to be stuck in traffic in peak hours. A number of apartment complexes have been built in close proximity to the METRORail. Some of these apartments include Gables, Waterford Square, Scotland Yard, Broadstone etc. (insert link). With growing Houston population we need more METRorails with mess number of crashes.