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METRORapid Silver Line: Houston's First BRT Corridor

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 2 claims and 5 source dossiers.

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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-58407e928b0fa973 quantitative

found a bus had been at full capacity 11 times

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The Chronicle analysed more than 40 months of operation and roughly 20,000 round trips of its own accord — the only independent measurement of the corridor's use.
Caveat: Read through a reprint; the original is behind the Chronicle's paywall.

Sources carrying this claim

Houston Chronicle (Dug Begley), via TransitTalent — Houston Metro's move to slow service on Uptown BRT raises question about future lines

Claim 2 clm-1c0b5a22a90ac6e7 quantitative

Forecast: 14,850 weekday riders by 2020

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: Carries METRO's own 2015 planning forecast alongside the fiscal-year boarding counts, which is what makes the gap measurable.
Caveat: The forecast is quoted by the broadcaster from METRO's planning documents rather than read from the documents themselves.

Sources carrying this claim

ABC13 Houston — METRO's Silver Line bus lanes in Houston's Galleria area not meeting ridership expectations

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-12-evidence-baseline effective 2026-08-07 · created 2026-08-12

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; no human review is implied by publication of this baseline.

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator: METRO (Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County) operates route 433; the corridor was built by the Uptown Houston District
Actor types: utility, regional-government
Funding model: mixed
Funding description: Uptown TIRZ property-tax increment captured by the management district plus Federal Transit Administration funds; corridor delivered with TxDOT, the City of Houston and the Houston-Galveston Area Council
Cost: $192.5M
Ownership: Not recorded
Decision rights: Not recorded
Exit conditions: Not recorded

5 source dossiers

ABC13 Houston — METRO's Silver Line bus lanes in Houston's Galleria area not meeting ridership expectations abc13.com · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID: src-01faef21f0da1d32
Publisher: Name not classified · abc13.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-07
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: Open archived copy ↗ · 2025-07-25
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Carries the 2015 METRO planning forecast of 14,850 riders per day, the fiscal-year boarding counts (231,000 in FY2021, 255,000 in FY2022, 299,000 in FY2023), the current figure of about 1,000 riders per day, and the ~60% Galleria office occupancy context
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-1c0b5a22a90ac6e7

Houston Chronicle (Dug Begley), via TransitTalent — Houston Metro's move to slow service on Uptown BRT raises question about future lines transittalent.com · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID: src-75b6757e6ba76a12
Publisher: Name not classified · transittalent.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-07
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Independent analysis: $192.5M cost; funding from management-district property-tax capture plus FTA money; headway cut from 12 to 20 minutes (April 2024 board vote), with 15 minutes considered to keep the federal rapid-transit standard; daily average first broke 1,000 in January 2024; a bus was at full capacity 11 times in ~20,000 round trips over 40+ months; interim CEO Tom Jasien quoted that ridership 'is just not there'
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-58407e928b0fa973

Mass Transit Magazine — Houston's METRORapid Silver Line opens for service masstransitmag.com · background

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Stable source ID: src-b6c3a94c9cbecf9c
Publisher: Name not classified · masstransitmag.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-07
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
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Locator: Open the recorded source note
Opening 23 August 2020; five miles, 10 stops; dedicated bus-only lanes, traffic priority signals and level boarding; construction led by the Uptown Houston District with TxDOT, the City of Houston and the Houston-Galveston Area Council; METRO operates; launch frequency every 10 minutes
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

METRO — Route 433 Silver Line ridemetro.org · background

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Stable source ID: src-03655f30009e8ebc
Publisher: Name not classified · ridemetro.org
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-07
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
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Locator: Open the recorded source note
Operator's current service data: every 20 minutes Monday–Sunday, the ten named stations, and the real-time next-bus layer (RideMETRO app, text stop ID to 697433, website tracking)
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Uptown Houston — Getting Around uptown-houston.com · background

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Stable source ID: src-d751b7c4331ef2dd
Publisher: Name not classified · uptown-houston.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-07
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
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Locator: Open the recorded source note
The builder district's own rider page: 'exclusive dedicated bus lanes', $1.25 fare — and a still-advertised frequency of every 10 minutes, which METRO's own route page contradicts at 20 minutes
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Known limits of this passport

Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.