Article: Fort Bend County, Texas, Draws up Commuter Rail Plan.

By Eric Hanson, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 6--While the battle over the referendum for Metro's 22-mile Houston rail expansion heats up, leaders in Fort Bend County are putting together a commuter rail project that could deliver thousands of suburbanites to downtown and the Texas Medical Center.

Fort Bend leaders say a commuter line connecting the fast-growing county with Metro's light rail system could be one way to ease traffic problems and provide greater mobility to a wider area.

Missouri City Mayor Allen Owen said people eventually will want to take rail from Fort Bend County to such destinations as ...

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