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rechlin

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  1. That's what they've been doing. There's about half as much surface parking as there was 15 years ago, thanks to replacing surface parking lots with new buildings and a garage and other development. The George R. Brown Tennis Center, the Anderson-Clarke Center, the Brockman Hall for Opera, the Allen Center Garage, the football practice dome, and several residential college buildings are now on what used to be surface parking lots.
  2. It's about to go vertical now. Foundation was poured before Christmas, and they are delivering steel for the structure now. Also, I heard a rumor that there will be a school component to this too. I believe this is being built by St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church but I'm not seeing any details on their web site so I could be wrong.
  3. I'm surprised nobody has posted about this before, but they've been doing a huge renovation of the tunnel level of this building to add a large amount of seating for the restaurants around it. Sadly there is a lot of vacancy (unfortunately typical for downtown these days), but it will be really nice for the restaurants around it. It's almost done and it's finally open to walk around now:
  4. That would make the gap between Central Station Main and Downtown Transit Center too large. There have been a few times the train has had to stop and turn around at Downtown Transit Center because of an issue on the tracks in downtown, and then I have to walk all the way from there to Central Station, and that's a pretty hot and sweaty walk. I realize the maximum walk would only be half that distance if Main Street Square and Bell were removed, but that's still a long way. I agree that Central Station Main is too close to both Preston and Main Street Square, but remember, that station didn't originally exist. It was only added about a decade ago for the transfers to the Green and Purple lines. But it's important as a transfer station so I can understand why they did it. Ideally maybe a single station could go in the middle to replace both Preston and Main Street Square but I can't see how the cost of that could possibly be justified. That said, the train usually only has the doors open for 15-20 seconds at the stops, so even after adding overhead due to possibly missing lights as a result and slowdown/speedup time, each additional stop doesn't add even a minute of travel time. It usually takes 10-11 minutes between Central Station Main and Wheeler for me (improved from the 11-13 minutes it used to take until they fixed some of the signaling perhaps 5 years ago) which is pretty reasonable.
  5. Sounds like the plans for the high-rise depicted in the renderings are on hold, and instead they will just renovate the existing nightclub into a bar?
  6. I found this out the hard way about 9 hours ago. Wish I'd checked here first! I hadn't been in a few months so I thought I'd catch lunch here today. Oh well!
  7. Or one could just use the current Metro app to pay for fares, which doesn't even require tapping. A minority of passengers use that, but I'm sure it's at least 10% of the people I see on my bus.
  8. I'd be surprised if they keep two systems. The new machines haven't been active on any of my buses yet, but I'm pretty sure they'll just get rid of the old machine and slide the new one over. And I'd have to pull the card out for both rides to ensure the same card is used on both, so what you are suggesting doesn't make sense. Thankfully nobody said it was a major inconvenience. I just said it was a major decrease in convenience. I've ridden Metro thousands of times over the years. Yes, there are greater inconveniences, but that's no reason to accept just one more inconvenience. Every little thing adds up.
  9. This will be frustrating for me. When I tap my Q-card to board the train or bus, I just tap my wallet. My Q-card is the only card it recognizes so it works. But since I have several tap-to-pay credit cards in my wallet, too, with the new system it would probably be random which it charges. That's not necessarily a problem for the first ride, but when I do the connection I would need it to recognize the same card or I'd get charged again. So this means that with the new system, I will have to pull my card out of my wallet and tap it separately, which is a major decrease in convenience.
  10. A request for a "protected landmark designation" on a parking garage. Just when you thought you'd seen it all.
  11. That's a separate issue. At least in the most recent case of that happening (affecting dozens of threads), it turns out those were actually intentionally done by the original commenter for reasons unknown. But yes, I agree, a moderator should delete all those comments so they don't keep polluting those threads.
  12. I believe it actually was explained. Spammers apparently discovered they could edit old posts (that were not spam) to insert spam at a later date, getting around the spam filter. This is apparently difficult to detect with the moderation tools, so the ability to edit posts after more than a short time has been removed. I wish a compromise could be made, like allowing edits but requiring moderator approval for any edits to go through, but perhaps the forum software does not support that.
  13. If they rebuild it too early, it will already be broken again by the 2026 World Cup, so there's no way they can start the repairs now.
  14. Why would you remove them just hours after posting them? I see you removed many others too, older ones also, in many other threads. I am thankful @hindesky doesn't remove his photos, so that this forum can remain as a historic record of the construction projects. It's always depressing when I go to old threads and see photos are missing, but usually it's because of link rot, not because of active actions.
  15. @cityliving FYI, your images aren't displaying.
  16. I've seen as many people claim this as people who say it's an urban legend and false. Does anyone know the real story?
  17. It took them a year, but they finally got around to tearing down the two houses this week. Excavator was rearranging the rubble as I passed. Maybe construction will start soon?
  18. Skanska really made a slam dunk with this. I like the muted red color that we don't see a lot of. Yet it still has large windows for good office views, and the way it reflects the clouds while maintaining the red is very pretty. And of course it also hides the ugly Embassy Suites from Discovery Green visitors. Sure, a few stories taller would be nicer, but I have no complaints about the height.
  19. I know they will look much nicer when complete, but as it is now the project looks like a set of tower blocks straight out of the Soviet Union. Though at least in Russia they tend to have grass between the towers instead of just concrete (because who could afford cars in the USSR?). Still, I'm glad to see this kind of density.
  20. The front was boarded up a couple months ago and I haven't noticed any construction workers on site since. Inside is gutted but with temporary construction lights lit up all the time. The roof looks a lot cleaner with the chiller mechanisms gone. Guessing they finished demolition and are waiting to start construction?
  21. I've noticed in recent months, this forum has been using a "lazy load" feature where it delays loading the images. This is presumably to reduce bandwidth, though with the images hosted off-site on imgur that doesn't really matter. However, I have found that it's sometimes "super lazy" and doesn't load the images for a while, so what I usually do is open the page and go do something else while waiting for it to finish loading, which can sometimes take several minutes. You might have to scroll down to that exact post with the image placeholders visible while you wait, to ensure it loads them.
  22. This is now dead, at least for the immediate future. The following letter was sent to those who put down deposits:
  23. Considering they are still planning to spend all the money to build a railroad bridge over the North Canal, it seems the proposal of consolidating the rail lines is dead. I don't understand why it would see much opposition, because it would be almost universally better to reroute it, so maybe it was a funding issue? Or maybe, because it would involve realigning the "Be Someone" bridge, the delay of the IH-45 rebuild made it no longer feasible to do this all at once?
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