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  1. EaDo Lou
    I tried the suggested detour yesterday - MLK to Old Spanish Trail to Lidstone. It is actually not too bad. The sidewalks are wide and empty of pedestrians, at least on the east side of MLK and the north side of OST, almost like a bike trail.
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    I think this MarlonVaremez "person" is actually an Artificial Intelligence chatbot. There is just something not quite human about the way it uses words, very much like ChatGPT. My guess is that the bot is trained to automatically scour the internet looking for keywords and it does this for thousands of discussion forums across the internet. It saw the words "NCAA" and "Championship" and using probability and statistics, thought the post was referring to a past NCAA basketball tournament. Look how the bot includes a link to a website, which I am not clicking because it is probably a scam or something. I bet MarlonVaremez does not respond to this post.😁
  3. EaDo Lou
    I haven't seen any graphics yet. If gaining the necessary right of ways was no challenge, the best path would be like shown by the blue line. This is probably not possible because it takes it straight through the backyard of some homes. More likely, the path will be something like shown by the pink or red lines below. I am assuming Wescott to Blossom would be optimal, although perhaps Wescott to Memorial is an option as well. I am just speculating.
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    Good news for those of us who like to ride to Memorial Park. The path will run along Buffalo Bayou. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2023/09/06/461609/houstons-memorial-and-buffalo-bayou-parks-to-be-connected-by-forthcoming-trail/
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    There aren't very many inside the 610 Loop (only 5 of them), but there are plenty in the Houston area. You can import the attached KML file into Google Earth to get the location of all the roundabouts in Texas. There seem to be well over 100 in the Houston area alone, with a large concentration in a neighborhood in Cypress. roundabout_export_9_23_2022.kml
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    According to the source below, there are approximately 8,800 roundabouts in USA, with about 396 of these in Texas. Florida has the most with 589. About 500 new roundabouts are built every year. https://roundabouts.kittelson.com/pdf/Rodegerdts - Status of Roundabouts in North America 2022.pdf
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    That's an aerial photo from several years ago. That long white building on the left was torn down in 2011 or 2012. If I understand correctly, in most cases, Google utilizes a machine learning algorithm to attempt to reconstruct in 3D what it sees from the 2D aerial photos (sometimes combined with StreetView data, where available). In other words, these 3D models for this location were probably automatically generated by AI, not a human. I'm not sure how often they update their graphics, but apparently not often enough.
  8. EaDo Lou
    On Friday, I rode past the area near where the Jose Campos Torres Memorial will be and I noticed that there was some tents and chairs set up. I wonder if they are about to open the new bike trail?
  9. EaDo Lou
    If I am not mistaken, I think these are the only 4 traditional single-family homes that still exist within the CBD region bounded by I-10, I-45, and I-69. All other homes have been torn down, moved out, or exist as museum homes only. I am not sure about this, but I can't find any other of these kind of houses in this region.
  10. EaDo Lou
    I biked through the park today and noticed that they have begun installing the pre-fabricated sections of the tunnel. I think this is the east tunnel (the one closer to downtown). It is much bigger than I had been envisioning! It looks like each section is pre-fabricated and installed individually. 3 sections installed so far - lots more to go.
  11. EaDo Lou
    https://abc13.com/community-events/houston-botanic-garden-opens-to-the-public-today/6424092/
  12. EaDo Lou

    Where Am I?

    EaDo Lou replied to hindesky's topic in Off Topic

    Moody Center on Rice Campus (west side of the building)?
  13. EaDo Lou
    https://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/09-04-20-buffalo-bayou-new-park-trail-fannin-street-mckee-street-austin-street-bikeway/
  14. EaDo Lou
    Work has started on extending the bike trail further east of McKee just south of Buffalo Bayou. Just a short extension to the existing trails at James Bute Park will allow the trails on the south banks of Buffalo Bayou east of HWY 59 to be connected to the rest of the Buffalo Bayou/White Oak Bayou trails.
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    There are equations for calculating the forces imposed by moving water (see https://www.bgstructuralengineering.com/BGASCE7/BGASCE7006/BGASCE70604.htm#:~:text=Hydrodynamic loads are those load,the effects of breaking waves.). Large debris in the water, such as trees, vehicles, etc would be even worse. If the fire reduced the strength of the trestles well below their capacity to withstand these forces, I would say it might be possible to at least partially collapse the bridge. But I would say that is an unlikely scenario. But you never know. It will be interesting to see what happens if we do get a flood next week.
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    Good point. From a load perspective, the loss of a trestle or two is no big deal since the original design loads were significantly higher. However, there is still a requirement that the deflections/vertical displacement in the concrete be kept below a certain maximum value in order to prevent cracks from developing and possibly allowing water to enter the cracks and corrode the internal rebar. Thus, the loss of support could be a problem in that regards. But it appears the supports are still in pretty good shape even after the fire, and if so, I would imagine they could open up the bridge fairly quickly.
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    I rode past it on my bike and as of 4PM, it was still smoldering and they were still putting water on it. But I agree, the damage is surprisingly minor, at least superficially. Hopefully the follow-up inspection will reveal no significant loss of integrity of the wood. I wonder if there was some kind of fireproofing that had been applied to the wood long ago?
  18. EaDo Lou
    If your destination is downtown, there is a quicker detour to the trail along White Oak Bayou via Stude Park. This does require a short amount of on-street riding, but it is not too bad.
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    The simplistic aesthetic design is likely the result of the limited budget rather than any engineering constraints. Civil engineers and architects can do almost anything given enough money.
  20. EaDo Lou
    Eastern Glades was open to the public today. It was kind of empty of people because it was raining, but I would imagine this will attract quite a crowd when the weather starts getting cooler. Very nice addition to Memorial Park.
  21. EaDo Lou
    According to the latest Houston Bikeways map (http://tei-houston.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0d493ce6ec01481b82cec71bf7f67374), a portion of Commerce is designated as a "Potential Short Term Implementation Opportunity" for an in-street ROW. If/when implemented, this would essentially link the Buffalo Bayou trails via Jensen/Navigation, the Harrisburg trail via Commerce, and the Columbia Tap trail via Paige/Harrisburg/Emancipation.
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