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Slick Vik

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  1. Interjet starting IAH-BJX June 22. There is huge demand here as United runs 4 flights a day.
  2. Nope. I support this project
  3. The reason the train stopped is because Lanier and his cronies turned union station into a baseball stadium instead of the train gateway is was planned to become
  4. This was my uncle's house, so many memories. The last time I stayed there was in 2009 and the power went out. I had fond memories of this place as I liked its modernist style and most importantly my uncle and aunt who lived there. My aunt just turned 80 actually
  5. Terrible article but no surprise coming from someone known as anti-railHouston needs to get past the driving only mentality but it won't as long as powerful lobbies have the ears of local politicians Beyond that the article is full of lies. Los Angeles, Denver, and Phoenix are actually investing more in rail expansions and LA actually wants to accelerate the process and convert BRT to rail as well. Saying autonomous taxi will replace public transit is laughable and the biggest irony is the quote that says vehicles that carry more people take vehicles off the road. That's pretty much the definition of rail transit.
  6. There are many examples of freeway segments closing and no real effects on traffic, (pierce elevated) people simply take alternative routes. And comparing the red line is hilarious. A lot more people fit into one rail car than any automobile. Unfortunately wider freeways simply encourage more driving, especially in a town where for the most part the field is rigged to make driving the only option. You're seeing things from a Houston only perspective.
  7. It's not idiotic. In fact removing lanes is an even better idea because this forces people to take alternative forms of transportations or drive on alternative routes. More freeways encourages more people to drive, thus zero effect on congestion.
  8. No those are all the cities I've taken rail in. Commuting you can limit to Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. And yes Las Vegas is a monorail.
  9. My point is LA is the ultimate car oriented city but even it realized that a strictly car oriented society is not the answer. Houston will find out soon enough, the hard way.
  10. Not putting it downtown is short sighted. If you can't see that you're blind and/or biased.
  11. I take it five days a week. And I've taken it in San Francisco, New York, boston, Mexico City, London, buenos Aires, Rome, Tokyo, Vancouver, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., and Dallas.
  12. 1. It wasn't always like that. In fact it had 1500 miles of streetcars at one point. Insert your point here about how your dad took them. 2. LA also thought it never needed rail, and now is aggressively building it at a pace faster than any city in north america 3. Why do the car lovers always take rail as a threat on their way of life? It reminds me of when the hint of gun control is mentioned to gun owners.
  13. We did remove rail parallel to I-10. Thanks tom delay.
  14. Just ignore them. That being said if you're white they find you as more of an easy target for whatever reason.
  15. Pretty much every out of town person I've spoken to thinks we are a backwards city for not having some kind of rail connection to our airports. They find it stunning, in a bad way.
  16. A lot of people on Dallas forums are ripping the NW mall site.
  17. I doubt all th NIMBYs feel the same way. No surprise here. It takes a vision to understand Rent a car to go downtown? That's a very dumb idea
  18. At one point there was an idea of a line linking northwest transit center downtown I think on the original 2003 referendum.
  19. Even if there is an uptown and university line there still needs to be an east/west line from northwest transit center into downtown, something parallel to university line.
  20. Chinese have offered funding for the California high speed rail and also LA to Vegas. No surprise there. Also, Japan China France and Spain are all trying to get in to the budding high speed rail in Southeast Asia as well, India in particular. They're trying to sell the technology and knowledge.
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