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John Whitmire: “700,000 people travel to Houston each day to work or attend…”

Featuring: John Whitmire, Nonpartisan | Mayor of Houston | Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 07:57

Certainly any great city has a public transit system that works in its own time, and we're constantly working with the Metro leadership to do better. But also we have a challenge because of the people that travel to Houston each day. 700,000 people travel to Houston each day to work or attend events. We have to provide for that 700,000. It's a challenge to our infrastructure. So many of them come through the toll road system. They come through our freeway systems. (07:57–08:02)

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