Texas Medical Center with METRORail

Considered a “city within a city,” the Texas Medical Center (TMC) is located three miles south of Downtown Houston and just southwest of Hermann Park and east of Rice University. With the opening of Hermann Hospital in 1925, the TMC took the first steps toward becoming the world’s largest medical complex and has been pioneering medical innovations bordering on the impossible and advancements that change people’s lives ever since. Along with many significant milestones and breakthroughs, the TMC is home to the world’s largest children’s hospital (Texas Children’s Hospital) and the world’s largest cancer hospital (M.D. Anderson Cancer Center). Today, the TMC is home to many of the nation’s best hospitals, physicians, researchers, educational institutions and health care providers, making it an internationally recognized community of healing, education and groundbreaking research. METRORAIL A fast and convenient way to travel quickly and cost-effectively across many of the urban areas of Houston, the METRORail light rail line began operation in 2004 with the 13-mile north-south Red Line. Ranking as the second most traveled light rail system in the southern United States and the 12th in the entire country, the METRORail Red Line was expanded in 2013, extending its service northward to the Northline Transit Center. In 2015, two new lines (the 3.3-mile Green Line and 6.6-mile Purple Line) were opened with transfer stations available in the Houston Theater District. Future plans include two additional lines as of yet unfunded.

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