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  1. Reporter
    Agreed. The one they went with is better. It's far more interesting at the top, where it counts the most.
  2. Reporter
    And I admire the simplicity of your critique. You always have the simplest comments. Simpleton.
  3. Reporter
    What a boring idiot.
  4. Reporter
    I've observed that most folks on this website don't even seem to know the difference between the Grand Texas project and the EarthQuest project.
  5. Reporter
    Wrong as usual Mr. HAIF moderator.
  6. Reporter
    That's Spanglish for "Pillbilly Idiot Wagon".
  7. Reporter
    PLEASING is in the eye of the beholder. So take your unpleasing OPINION and it.
  8. Reporter
    I blame the people.
  9. Reporter
    Its all you deserve.
  10. Reporter
    Approved.
  11. Reporter
    Thats right. And they probably don't even realize that most of the floors don't line up properly either. Some stick out, some retract. WTF is wrong with RD anyway?!?!
  12. Reporter
    I'm not putting on my jogging suit anytime soon to run along the roller coaster bridges where the Pierce Elevated one stood but I don't think it's any more far fetched than some of the ideas in the renderings of the (proposed) park area around Minute Maid. What's that little orange band that looks like some kind of high tech bike path swirling around the parks anyway? Price tags: I agree, everybody's cheap and I get it. They built a park over a freeway in Dallas. It wasn't cheap but they did it. Donors with a vision, wasn't it? They are proposing to do the same thing in Houston and it won't be cheap. Things like this are possible. Maybe not likely, but possible. Geometry isn't really an huge obstacle here. It might require a little 'creative geometry'. Maybe angling or curving the bridges so they aren't strait lines. Possibly raising the elevation of the center of the parks so that the grade isn't too steep. Maybe not even putting the low parts of the bridges in the middle. There's more than one way to build a bridge. Also, no one would be forced to use them. Some pedestrians might still want to or have to cross at street level. My roller coaster bridges aren't going stop anyone from hurling themselves into moving traffic. Now gauche this!
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    No. It's brilliant. Make each bridge be a slope. The bridges would be at ground level somewhere in the middle of each block and gradually rise to become overpasses over the street. People could still cross the street at ground level too. But bikers, joggers and walkers would be able to do their thing without having to deal with the traffic at every crossing. It would look like little hills on a roller coaster. Inconvenient? Not for the bikers, joggers and walkers going over it, or the cars going under it. The extra amount of energy it would take to gradually climb each hill would be great exercise. Expensive? Who cares. Just get some rich sucker who needs a tax dodge to pay for it along with the other parks built over the freeways. What's another few million dollars to a plan already this ambitious?
  14. Reporter
    Do both. Make the former Pierce land become several block wide, individual, ground level parks and then connect all the individual parks with skinny, light pedestrian/bike bridges. Don't keep the giant, wide cement structure that was formally the Pierce and put a park on top.
  15. Reporter
    Who gives a shit?
  16. Reporter
    Let's face it. In Houston, everything sticks out. But's that's how we like it!
  17. Reporter
    Let it stick out. It's about a million times better than what's there now. And maybe it will bring some friends.
  18. Reporter
    I say. If you don't want your view blocked, you should have built a taller building. Maybe that's how we get some supertalls downtown.
  19. Reporter
    Don't hold your breath, because...
  20. Reporter
    So what exactly are we getting? A 36ish-story tower in the middle of Midtown? IMPRESSIVE!
  21. Reporter
    I know most of you prefer high density and want to see everything over 7 stories go to Downtown, Midtown or Uptown, but I really love the distance between the towers sprinkled from downtown to uptown. Yes, the more they fill in the better and some day west Houston may start to look like Manhattan (not in my lifetime). But until then, I love how all these large towers between downtown and uptown have their own space and command their own presence. So what if it's a big F/U to the "How To Create A City" playbook that NYC and Chi gave us. I still like it. It's happening. And my life is great and yours sucks!
  22. Reporter
    Is the word FORMER hidden from views on certain browsers or something?
  23. Reporter
    Maybe you don't like Post Oak, but it's NOT crap. However, your over-dramatic opinion post is crap.
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  25. Reporter
    Right. Why would anyone want to build a hotel within walking distance of a convention center, a baseball stadium, a basketball arena, a soccer stadium, a big park that sometimes has national sports related events, a theatre district, a light rail station and millions and millions of square feet of offices in the center of the 4th largest city and 5th largest metro in America? Greenspoint I can see. But overlooking Discovery Green? WTF?
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