 Houston currently has over 300 miles of City-constructed bike lanes, bike routes, shared lanes, bayou trails and rails-to-trails across a 500 square mile area of Houston.Dan Felstein and Claudia Kolker of the "Houston Chronicle" said in 1997 that most Houstonians who take public transportation are poor.A 1995 survey concluded that 76% of people riding on local bus lines of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) took the buses because they had no other means of transportation.