Slick Vik

It can be done but Indians don't buy business class very much.

Tear it down. It would only work if both sides were residential high rises. I just walked the high line yesterday so I am making a direct comparison.

Yuppie must mean sensible person that cares about its city and wants progress. Look I get it you live in college station and haven't visited more than a handful of great cities, if any. But go see some, experience them, stay a while. Then you'll understand.

I was destroyed for months saying Houston didn't need the pierce. Eat crow

High speed rail is fairly expensive ticket wise regardless of where it is

Pathetic. Third world countries like Laos, Cambodia, and India are making huge investments in high speed rail but in the greatest superpower of the world short sighted selfish idiots are blocking hopes of progress

This is unfortunate

Not a conspiracy. It's all about bribery. This is oil country.

Rail at a stadium site is not a difficult concept at all. Look at Barclays center which has subway lines and the LIRR all stop underneath it. Also Franklin got government money which takes a lot of time to apply for and win and was on the same page with the architects. If you can't see the obvious corruption of Lanier to purposely block rail you have rose colored glasses. He went out of his way to do it even though rail easily could have been part of the configuration. It's part of the anti rail sentiment him and his buddies delay and Culberson and some at TxDOT have as well. And it's putting us 50 years behind the rest of the civilized world.

About this time, the Harris County Sports Authority was created with Jack Rains and Billy Burge running it. They advised my attorney, Roland Chamberlin, and me that, in order to pursue our project, we should work with a pair of attorneys the authority had retained. After several meetings with them it was clear that nobody at the authority had any interest in trying to help preserve rail at Union Station. This was driven home after I met with Mike Surface, who worked for Harris County. During a meeting with him, he told me that in order to effect a multi-million-dollar construction cost savings the footprint of the stadium was going to be moved south all the way to Texas Avenue, thereby covering the space where tracks could be laid. I did not believe him. I called the lead architect at HOK, with whom I had had previous discussions, and asked if this was true. He told me he had never heard of such a thing. After I finished, Todd canvassed the other council members and came back to tell me that we had a very strong majority. I came back the following Wednesday when they voted. Todd canvassed them again before the vote and this time told me that all of our support had evaporated overnight. Mayor Lanier was there one of the days but I don't remember which. Go figure.

You can go talk to the guy that ran texas limited and find out for yourself.http://m.chron.com/opinion/article/Houston-deserves-better-rail-service-4337295.php

Houston to galveston railroad was hoping Union station would be downtown terminus. But Lanier and his cronies changed the baseball stadium plans to hit Union station specifically so trains didn't have a downtown station, particularly a grand one such as that. So texas limited had no hope with a station in the heights. Also insurance costs were sky high but if Union station was available that cost could be eaten as the benefits would be greater.

Maybe not but you can judge a level of knowledge (usually)

Please don't get sanctimonious with me. You are evidently unaware of the statistical facts. Rural college-enrollment rates are an often-reported problem, one that periodically yields recommendations from the field on ways this issue could be addressed. Only 17 percent of rural adults 25 or older have a college degree, which is about half the percentage of urban adults. About 31 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in rural areas were enrolled in higher education in 2009, compared with about 46 percent in urban areas and 42 percent in suburban areas. http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?DISPATCHED=true&cid=25983841&item=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.edweek.org%2Fedweek%2Frural_education%2F2013%2F10%2Frural_students_lag_urban_peers_on_college_enrollment_persistence.html In 1970, there was a 6-point difference between urban and rural counties in the percent of people over 25 years of age who had college degrees. (Rural stood at 5.7 percent; urban was 11.6 percent.) By 2010, the gap was nearly 15 points, as shown in the chart above. http://www.dailyyonder.com/college-degree-gap-widens/2012/03/26/3828

No. Farmers serve a purpose but I wouldn't call them extraordinarily educated.

If people are against selling then eminent domain is the only way

Rural folk aren't exactly rocket scientists

I think they will as a last resort How can you discuss with someone that doesn't want the project under any circumstances?

There are a certain number of hours the trains need to be tested calm down people. I also think it gives CAF an extra month to send as many train cars here as possible before opening date.

Surveying work probably

Nothing good happens after midnight

I saw some flags on Rochow also. Not sure if that is the first step in taking down the Allen house apartments or if they are leftover from street reconstruction earlier.

Underground is about triple of elevated cost

Backwards

No they tried to take the Skywest slots but instead DOT modified the treaty and gave extra slots to southwest. United is going to suffer a lot now.