Slick Vik
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Also hobby in discussions with one other international carrier
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DOT approved Southwest because United and Skywest are essentially the same airline. Let the fare wars begin. Spirit vs Southwest vs United to Cabo and the same three plus Aeromexico to Mexico City.
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People haven't gone to Washington in years midtown is the spot now and has been for some time. But I'm pleasantly surprised you didn't say Richmond strip.
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That's inaccurate geography. Northwest Mall is a dead dump it's central to nothing but Pizza Inn.
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Fear mongering at its best
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Mixed use. Whole foods on post oak concept being looked at
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I know the guy who bought this land. Hilarious to see the chronicle's dollar amount, it's way off. Secondly it won't be a suburban style development so calm down.
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I think they were referring to the parts in the city no houses were being taken. And slivers of land in rural areas otherwise. We have republican leadership of fear mongering idiots that pretty much try to stop any useful political project.
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They can use it if necessary
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No. They're looking into it as an option to appease Parker who is appeasing the nimbys.
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Texas Central Railway said it was informing the Federal Railroad Administration that it prefers a route along electrical utility corridors. The route would use land along the BNSF right of way near Loop 610 and U.S. 290, then follow Union Pacific tracks along Washington into downtown Houston. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/High-speed-rail-route-would-affect-Houston-6085167.php
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This is a private project so it's going to be very difficult for a few nimbys to stop it, particularly since they aren't taking a single house for construction
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Um downtown is convenient to 45, 59, 10, and 288.
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Because it's a city center to city center train that's what the company want and it makes sense for anyone with a shred of common sense. Have you even been to Denver harbor or northwest mall recently?
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Because they don't read newspapers or aren't informed so they miss meetings isn't the fault of TCR. More of a reflection of the people that live there.
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This. I went to all three meetings. Two and three were just fear mongering ignorant neighborhood associations with no information and false fears with absurdly hilarious accusations. And the competing neighborhoods said the project was great so long as it went through the other neighborhood but not theirs. Classic NIMBY's. High speed Japanese rail is about as safe a technology as there is for travel, and the impact would be minimal and much quieter than the freight trains that currently go by and even cars.
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No I'm not. Look at how much right of way is taken by a rail and a freeway. It's not even a comparison.
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Big difference between a track of rail and a gargantuan highway
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Yes I don't care what a few arrogant NIMBY's think. I was at your meeting what people said is we support the train so long as it doesn't got enough our neighborhood. That is a selfish view if I've ever seen one.
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No I don't because their concerns are selfish and short sighted. The existing freight trains that go through are much worse and saying northwest transit center which is a desolate lot is better than the center of the city is laughable and shows to the intelligence of the residents. It's most likely going to go downtown based on what they've chosen for Dallas.
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The majority of short sighted NIMBY's is not an accurate sample. Selfish are the ignorant people that live there that are more concerned about fear mongering than a project that will make a difference to millions of riders annually.
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The only people that agree are a few neighborhoods. The vast majority would want it to go downtown.
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It's a very simple concept that you refuse to understand. You build more lanes people will fill them up because they are there. It's becoming a running joke now, how much more widening is possible? Txdot and metro refuse to think of mass transit, instead their next idea is double and possibly triple stacking freeways. There is corruption and/or refusal of alternative ideas.
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Not really because Culberson put some language in a federal bill that said rail would never be built in that area. That would have to be reversed. And it's unclear that the elevated lanes will be built with LRT ready structural integrity but it seems like it won't have it.
