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destroying an entire neighborhood's aethestic/vibe/thing in a week, jfc.

Harrisburg was waaay further down the bayou than the east end.

does the first ward not exist? or the 6th ward? how the hell is second ward "houston's oldest neighborhood"?

wow thanks for backing that up with literally any facts or knowledge or opinion. Did I see you at any of the txdot or CoH meetings the past 3 years?

there are literally no positives to this project. It will cause even more significant traffic around the i59-288 merger, it will destroy basically all of the pregaming/postgaming culture around Minutemaid and BBVA, it funnels all of west-central houston's traffic to 610, exacerbating every other bottleneck of traffic this city already has, it racistly closes off near northside from downtown. In the event of a disaster, everyone north of i10 will be cut-off from getting to the medical center for any emergencies. It doesn't even tie into any public transportation plans, TxDOT is still a big "

my brain breaks trying to understand just how much this area will change if the i45, bayou, and rail re-alignments all occur in the same decade.

page 33 of this https://www.downtownhouston.org/media/uploads/attachments/2017-11-02/Plan_Downtown_Report_FINAL_Spreads_sm.pdf i know the last few i45 meetings also had a similar(identical?) rail alignment as part of the Houston requests to TxDOT

@triton So you were right on the east side, and I was right on the west side... here's the plan as it is in the last Houston Downtown Plan.... so I guess it is true we should be worried/mad that the new i45 plan doesn't imply this'll happen. ugh.

The only thing i'm positive on is that all of the tentative plans have Winter Street line being removed and the southern line, that already has a separate grade crossing at Houston Ave, becoming the single line, how that works west of white oak bayou i'm fuzzy on.

my rudimentary understanding of this clusterf' of a plan is something like this?

i'm not sure your reading is correct. It makes sense that if they relocate/combine the railroad tracks that there would be a need to make sure the crossings are grade separated at those two streets?

anyone else frustrated that they haven't used the pandemic to start building out/figuring out the courthouse lightrail stop? it seems the most straight forward of the metro next buildouts/approved projects.

it feels like they're kind of waiting for the i45 update to even bother with how this will actually get accessed.

i cant imagine how cutthroat it's going to be to try to get companies to come here instead of the MKT or Montrose Collective.

all of this development points to the powers that be already believing the proposed railroad-combining is going to happen and that winter street's ROW will be rebuilt as a main-street-corridor for the area. that's the only way it all makes sense.