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On 2/9/2024 at 11:45 AM, JLWM8609 said:

So between this, the elevated I-10, and the NHHIP, there will be continuous construction along I-10 from Voss Rd. to Waco St. over the next decade or longer. Yippee! /s

My entire childhood I remember the 410/10 interchange in San Antonio under construction.  When I finally drove on it, it had just finished

I drove past it yesterday it's just a parking lot. It's even less a plaza than I thought

I can't find the article, but I do remember reading that one of the reasons that response times were slow is a lot of HPD are on "special teams" e.g. drug task forces

Found the quote after some digging 

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“Our problem isn’t that we don’t have enough officers in patrol — we don’t have enough running calls for service in patrol,” [Houston Police Officers Union president] Griffith said. “You have specialized units, you have crime suppression teams. Those are guys that do not run calls for service.”

 

 

This article is from last year https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/houston-police-response-times-18091539.php 

10 hours ago, HNathoo said:

They were doing exploratory demolition at 908 Live Oak yesterday. 

 

 

Sounds like the most fun kind of demolition 

"Red Zone" sounds like a sports bar

Is the facade done yet?

Reminds me a little of the Sydney opera house. I wonder at what point a screen is so big it distracts players.

They put up "now hiring signs" all over the neighborhood this weekend

Looking back, its unclear to me what curbs were added - and google maps hasn't been updated because its so recent.  The construction photos make it look like any of dozens of roads in houston with medians - lots of turning lanes and curb cuts, with minimal protection of the cross walk at the tips of the medians.  Does someone have a diagram of the project with the places people don't like marked?

The photos in the listing are good historical photos of the area

I wonder if it will open before ∑ternal Beauty - they have the sign outside and some metal framing inside but no work in months 

The Nextdoor people found out 

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East End, Eado, Eastwood people….how am I just hearing about this plan to move the Greyhound bus station to Harrisburg?!? Houston is unbelievable with its ability to shift problems to low income, minority areas with little to no input from the community. This would never happen in The Heights! I want to say, I am not a “Not in my backyard” person. I’ve worked with the homeless and mentally ill. My issue is that instead of addressing the problems that come along with the Greyhound bus station in Midtown, they are just pushing it down the road. Instead of addressing the crime, the unhoused, and mentally ill in Midtown and downtown, they are “hiding” it in residential neighborhoods! This will have a HUGE impact on the whole east end area along the Green line light rail. It will significantly impact the area. If you think you won’t be affected because you are not right next door to the location, that is simply just not true. This could impact Eastwood park, which could become a “hang out”, etc etc. Any thoughts…? I’m at a loss right now 🤷‍♀️

The alarmist comments are pretty funny too

I couldnt get my q card replaced easily, so I temporarily started using the app and it’s been good enough I never got a q card

$63 is low enough to legit do it for a block party or a birthday party

Walking across at least two blocks of parking every direction before you even head to the place that is a couple minutes walk is not that walkable.  This is coming from someone who will walk a mile downtown to do stuff regularly - for unplanned, spontaneous before or after game events, it has to be a maximum of one block away or it is not part of the conversation.

There are not that many restaurants and bars within easy walking distance of minute maid. Besides the two italian restaurants next to the stadium (not exactly pre-/post- gaming places), the closest cluster are the hotel based bars and restaurants around discovery green (minimum 2 block walk), followed by downtown (7 blocks to main street) and EaDo bars (6 blocks and going under the freeway).

Of course more organic development like wrigleyville would be great, but the Astros literally own the land around the stadium.  They either have to do the development themselves or sell the blocks off.  

Oh and my dream development would include a cheap bar and grill that I can suggest to my friends to go to before or after the game

Only $200? I might close my street for my next birthday party

I'm sure they're paying for it.  Street closures seem to happen a lot more in east downtown than other places - for a while 8th wonder was just casually closing down dallas every other week - usually when I was wanting to walk to get some coffee

Or Texas central can just renovate their kitchens

The lanes on Polk are nice between emancipation and Cullen - I bike them every week day. The rebuilt part past Cullen looks like an improved version of the rest of Polk. One of the problems before were people parking in the bike lane, which A) blocked the bike lane & B) was not big enough to get them out of traffic. Hopefully concrete curbs solve that where armadillos don’t 

Does this mean they didn’t get a permit for the pool originally? Or that they added a pool?

Looks different than what I was expecting but it is also different than other bars there. Seems like it could be a just “bar.” to go hangout at which doesn’t really exist in east downtown. I wonder how much the drinks will be - note the lack of prices on the menu pictures 

21 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

288 is 288. Is The Nolan Ryan Expressway the official name? 

The feeders are labeled "South freeway" I think

Recently Kroger seems to have started accepting Apple Pay - both Polk and buffalo speedway 

2 hours ago, 004n063 said:

That's big news! Where'd you see that?

I drove on it yesterday.  Thursday I am going to try to get a photo when I bike over there