Metro Construction Time-Lapse

I saw this on Houston Tomorrow, courtesy Swamplot. Metro rebuilt an intersection on Harrisburg in 72 hours and recorded it in time-lapse video, pretty cool stuff.

This isn’t shocking speed, Portland built their entire streetcar network a block at a time and did each block with this kind of speed. My recollection is that the portland streetcar was built at a pace of something like 1 mile every 2 weeks… but I could be wrong. I wasn’t able to quickly find a report on that, so if anyone has a link to how fast that was built please share.

Still, a job well-done by Metro. A common complaint against light-rail (or any other infrastructure project for that matter), is that the construction will destroy the surrounding communities. There’s no reason that should be the case, and it’s good of Metro to be showing the effort they’re making to avoid undue impact on surrounding homes and businesses.