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HOUSTON – If you spend any time in Montrose on a weekend, you\u2019ll likely see a young man in a bright neon vest, wielding hand-held lights and standing firm against a tide of Houston traffic. But, if you didn’t know already, this man is not on the city payroll.<\/p>\n
Meet \u2018Metro\u2019 <\/p>\n
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Davonta Robbins, 20 isn’t a crossing guard for a school, and he isn’t a TxDOT contractor. He is a volunteer who takes the bus from Spring every weekend just to stand at the corner of Montrose Boulevard and Westheimer Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I try to do the best I can to make sure people cross the street safely,” Robbins said. “We mostly have a lot of speeders… there have been a lot of accidents. I do this just because so nobody else won’t get hit.”<\/p>\n The mission is personal <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n For Robbins, the mission is personal. In August 2021, he was the victim of a police chase on Houston\u2019s southeast side. A driver fleeing from officers struck him, leaving him hospitalized for months with a shattered leg that now requires a metal screw.<\/p>\n When he saw the high volume of foot traffic and the dangerous “blind curve” at the Montrose intersection, he decided to step in. He bought his own equipment, a vest and lights, and began conducting “tests” to see if cars would stop for him. When they didn’t, he knew he had to stay.<\/p>\n “I have a lot of people that definitely appreciate it,” Robbins said. “I’ve had drivers stop and say ‘Thank you,’ because other than that, they would have hit the pedestrians.”<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019m glad he\u2019s here\u2019 <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n The community has noticed. Maria Rivera and Binna Tkaur, frequent visitors to the area, say Robbins’ presence transforms the atmosphere of the intersection.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s overwhelming because the cars go so fast,” Rivera said. “I was scared because I almost got run over. I\u2019m glad he\u2019s here.”<\/p>\n Robbins’ dedication recently went viral after Marco Delgado, a driver who admitted he almost hit Robbins once before realizing what he was doing, posted a video of him on TikTok. That video has since gained over three million views.<\/p>\n “I saw him helping people cross the road and I thought it was a really nice job,” Delgado said. “I found out he wasn’t working for anyone, that he was just volunteering for himself.”<\/p>\n Delgado was so moved that he started a GoFundMe to help Robbins buy a car<\/a>. As of this week, the fund has raised over $5,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n For a man who currently relies on the bus and the occasional U-Haul rental to get to the spot where he helps people, the support is life-changing.<\/p>\n Despite the occasional angry driver, “Metro” says he has no plans to stop.<\/p>\n “Everybody has family they\u2019re trying to get home to,” Robbins said. “I\u2019ll try to do the best I can to make sure everyone is safe.<\/p>\n The Source: Davonta Robbins (known as “Metro”); Maria Rivera & Binna Tkaur, local residents and frequent visitors to the Montrose\/Westheimer area; Marco Delgado, creator of the viral TikTok<\/p>\n Montrose<\/a>Good News<\/a>News<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – If you spend any time in Montrose on a weekend, you\u2019ll likely see a young man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10300,18837,56,58,57,1987,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-205756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-coronavirus","tag-good-news","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-montrose","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}