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    This is incredibly long overdue. For those saying that the traffic doesn't exist here or that it was caused by the 288 Contruction never drove this road before all that. Back in my day before that construction .... early to mid 2010's .... you'd still sit in bad / bad traffic heading east in the morning and heading west in the evening. All because on non-continuous frontage roads and antiquated on / off ramps. Not really a capacity problem IMO as much as it is a design issue. Fix the frontage rds to be continuous and have all the exits / onramps be 'X' / reverse diamond interchanges with dedicated exit / entry lanes on 610. Once this all is fixed, then we can start talking about an even more needed upgrade to the 610 section from I45 -> 225 and the cluster that is. They really need to design it much like 290 / 610 / I10 is on the west side. You should be able to take a direct connection from I45 to 225 and visa-versa without actually getting on 610 at all. In addition, heading east on 610 you should commit to taking either 45, 225. or continuing on 610 well before you actually get to I45. Ideally that should be right after the Spur 5 exit stuff that's going to now get built. South on 610, you should be able to pick 225, 45 N or S, or continuing on 610 before you even hit 225. Probably will need to get lumped in with a rebuild of the ship channel bridge, but good golly that's needed for petro commerce / ship channel commerce that the road serves. Some big $$$$'s lost in the congestion everyday b/c of a bad design.
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    You’d have to assume Rice is lobbying pretty hard to get them to be involved in some way with the Innovation District.
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    The Texas project is also ~ 1/2 the length of the California system as well. That helps a lot.
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    It is A&M. At least they're standing up?
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    Oof. Karen is the worst. Of everyone who attended this meeting, what percentage of them do you think own a MAGA hat? No need to answer. I've tabulated the results and present to you the Venn diagram:
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    Solar Energy: Wind Energy: Heavy lift Rocket for manned space flight Rural Broadband Internet
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    This is the kind of forward thinking that helped win WWII and put a man on the moon.
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    It doesn't even seem like they've started building the new westbound span of 610. I don't know how this project is going to be done in 3/4 of a year like the last projection I saw (3rd quarter 2020). Or is 3rd quarter only when the 288 stuff is going to be finished... meaning that the 610 work is even later?
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    Just make one large surface parking lot. No shade to worry about and no basket of deplorable renters.
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    I guess that's why my argument is that in a climate like this.... maybe having these areas represented by a more local / more accountable municipality could hold this decline off or incentivize the developers to stem the tide. My original argument here, which I think is being lost, is that a development like the grid would not have happened at its location in an area surrounded by the housing stock / tax base around it without the fact that it was in a different city than the COH. That's it. Stafford wanted this for the sales tax $... even if it is a little out of place. It's still close enough to Sugar Land in their estimations (developers) to make this work. I looked at Dallas / the metroplex and its development to see if that might be a better model. Somehow I was told that I didn't know what I was talking about.
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    Houston: Shop 'til ya drop!
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    Because that's the reality. There is a huge gulf of development and decay between 610 and the Beltway almost 360 degrees around Houston. I didn't make this up. That's what the reality is. The only area where this is not the case is along I10... where it just so happens that there a small, mostly wealthy cities abut. Is that an accident? The city of Houston is very large. The out parts of Houston are not growing. My argument is that regionally southeast Texas might be better served by smaller Houston with more mid-sized cities surrounding it. Cities competing against one another would help to invest in areas that might not get investment if they were all in one large city. It's about equity and distribution of investment. Having large areas of stagnant growth is bad. The grid is good because it is actually working against an area that is trendy downwards. That's all I'm trying to say here. Have you never driven along 59 south, 59 north, 45 south and north, 288, I10 east, etc between 610 and the Beltway? There's almost nothing new.
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    If it's so obvious I don't understand why you can't give an example. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Look, the parts of Stafford / Meadows Place / Houston that is close by this development aren't all that nice. Heck, you're a 5 minute drive from Beachnut …. where you see actual street walking ladies of night. It's across the street from a Walmart where people have been shot in the parking lot. Maybe I'm way off, but if this area was in Houston I just think don't think there would have been the incentives in place to develop this plot in the manner they are. Again, I could just be way off base.
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    And I stand by my statement. What is your argument? That because of this one development at the Beltway (actually outside but close enough) that there is not an expanding area between 610 and the suburbs that is in need of re-investment / revitalization? This development also doesn't happen without City Centre which I referenced above. Outside of this one development, please list all the other ones between 610 and @/around the Beltway. I'll wait.
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