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  1. On 5/19/2023 at 10:13 AM, MrFubbles said:

    Such a shame those houses can't be incorporated into the design. Soon Montrose will be a maze of cookie cutter strip centers

    That's not 615 W Gray. It's just that corner lot that's been vacant for a while. 

  2. I don't know I mean Levy Park has it's name on it and it looks like they're just gutting the building at the moment. A small company outside of Seattle is tackling the conversion. Their profile is small but clean and neat. And to be honest, I trust a company doing this coming from that area compared to some good ol boys here in Texas. 

    https://rainierdc.com/gallery

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  3. 2 hours ago, Amlaham said:

    I know I'm asking for too much, but I realllllly wish Westheimer between 610 and Beltway 8 would move in the same direction. Its legit shopping center after shopping center for miles. It's sad because this stretch is one of the densest areas in town. I still see tons of people walking along Westheimer in the tiniest sidewalks between the 8 lane Westheimer and the sea of parking in front of strip centers. I'll probably go as far as saying, I see more people walking on this stretch of Westheimer than I do in midtown/ museum district, etc. Just this morning a cyclist was hit and killed on this portion of Westheimer. There is a person hit/ killed every month on that stretch of Westheimer :/ 

    Yep I completely agree and for whatever reason the city just continues to enable drivers more and more. Who the heck thinks an 8 lane street is normal in any city? The fact the city sits back and does nothing but repave it is a slap in the face of every person that tries to commute in that area by walking or transit.  

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  4. 1 minute ago, kennyc05 said:

     

    I hope the ones around NRG get upgraded one day.

    They will. As development continues to fill in from the inner city outwards, those areas will get upgraded. I wish Fannin coming in from 610 would get upgraded already. It needs to be a signature gateway in to the city and more specifically the Medical Center, but in due time this will all happen. 

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Jrr said:

    Are the buildings old enough to qualify as Historical Structures?  Does anyone know how to make that happen or get these designated?

    I'm sure they are but I think the North Canal would have to be rerouted somehow and at this point I'm not sure it's possible. Unless the official route isn't set in stone but I'm no engineer. 

  6. 12 minutes ago, 004n063 said:

    I am not super confident that a Pearland line would have ever been very successful. The only regional lines that really make sense to me would be a Woodlands-Downtown-Sugar Land line (stops at Woodlands IAH, Downtown, Med Center,  Bellaire/Bissonet, and Sugar Land) and a Katy-Downtown-Deer Park line (stops at Katy, Energy Corridor, Memorial/CityCentre, Uptown, Downtown, East End, Pasadena, and Deer Park).

    Local corridors like Washington (and Westheimer, and Gray, and Shepherd, and Montrose, and Almeda - roughly in that order) seem like better foci for our transit system to me. But I don't really know what I'm talking about.

    Have you seen Pearland at rush hour? Both in the AM and PM that area is a disaster with easy 2 hr commutes in and out of the city. I used to live in that area, people def would have used it. And if anything it would have furthered the cause for more transit. We need to start giving people options. The idea that nobody would have used it is getting old. 

     

  7. I wanted to add this random piece of info. I have a friend who works for TxDOT Houston, and he recently told me that the 288 Toll Road to Pearland was actually planned to be an extension of the Metro Rail but because of so much push back, it became a regular toll road. He also said a line on Washington to the old NW Mall is not dead it just needs the support of businesses along Washington. That was the biggest hurdle when trying to get that approved the first time. Anyways it hurt me when he said all of this, especially since the University Line should already be running right now if it hadn't been for idiots like Culberson. Happy Friday! 

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  8. 3 hours ago, X.R. said:

    Wanted to discuss something bike related and I feel like this thread is the best place for it. We have wonderful lanes on Austin and Caroline and I use them all the time. In the same vein, Gray is a great resource. I don't really get why I see people on bikes on Fannin and San Jacinto. San Jacinto especially because the protected bike lanes, once you pass a few after the underpass, are one street to the right. I saw some riders taking San Jacinto into downtown and then turning towards discovery green. Then ran into the same riders going back up on Fannin later in the day. Genuinely miffed, I don't get it. The riders were all kitted out too, so you'd think they would know about the paths. What am I missing? 

    I want all riders to be safe, and the safest bet is away from high traffic areas and on the lanes.  

    Not everyone needs a bike lane. I've been riding for 8 years and I'm very comfortable riding with traffic but I also don't wake up every day wanting to ride with traffic so I take the bike lanes. At the end of the day, bike lanes are for families, kids, casual riders, etc. We need more bike lanes to promote growth in the scene from the bottom up. Right now it's mostly experienced riders on the street. Either way there is nothing wrong with people sharing the road with cyclists as long as they do it safely. 

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  9. 20 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

    .  Just can't admit to the fact that the vast majority of downtown fountains are indeed working, can you?  Even had to go outside of downtown to find yourself another non-working foiuntain, which judging by the fencing around it is probably being worked on.  I saw it working just a couple weeks ago.

    As to the Houston Center fountain, I doubt it was ever their intention to have it running 24/7. It does work;  I've recently seen it running, as you can see in my posted picture above.

    I just walked past a bunch of fountains this weekend that weren't on. Tranquility, Sesquicentennial, and the majority of The Cotswold fountains were all off. 

  10. 28 minutes ago, __nevii said:

    Also, the city released a climate action plan back in 2020 that called for parking minimums to be abolished city wide no later than 2030 — I updated the one parking minimums thread that I saw elsewhere on the forum.

    I'm thinking that they are extending exemptions piece-by-piece through the decade (startng inside 610 first, before gradually expanding to Beltway8 and beyond to even annexed Kingwood, Clear Lake, etc). I just don't want a situation like you mentioned, where they are too slow and "twiddle-their thumbs," only for politicians like Abbott to swoop in, and enact even more stringent controls against the cities than he is already is doing (i.e. the election laws in Texas Senate targeting Harris county being the most egregious).

    Man I'm very afraid that cities in Texas are going to lose all control of doing what they feel is best for themselves. It's a really scary time in Texas to have a single party try to take so much control. Now as far as city leaders moving with a sense of urgency, I hope we see 610 parking minimums lifted soon. We're literally shooting ourselves in the foot trying to build dense urban neighborhoods because developers are having to accommodate cars and not people. It's so stupid. 

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    58 minutes ago, __nevii said:

     

    I haven't seen much of what became of this topic other than the initial remark, tbh. Ned did eventually apologize, although I'm not sure if Turner took it personally to reach out for that, or if the apology was simply given after the responses from Turner, Lina, etc.

    If Turner reached out personally, then it was indeed overdone. But I will say that addressing Ned's remarks, especially in disagreement, isn't necessarily "insecurity": that stuff is just irrelevant ad hominem/affirming-the-consequent fallacy, no different that MAGAs crying "WOKE" in response to pushback against their policies.

    Yeah he ended up calling him to ask about his comments and then from what I understood, asked for an apology. If we're going to tout ourselves as the 4th biggest city, we need to quit crying over spilled milk comments from random people. From what I gathered, a lot of people liked Houston and had a great time. Now I do personally believe his comments were nonsense. Downtown was alive, and people were everywhere. If he had a bad time, that's his boring ass fault. 

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