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  1. 16 hours ago, Ross said:

    Can you expand on why people do not need to access their homes with their cars?

    The only reason someone would need a car to access their home is if the only entrance to the home was a weird garage door that opened for cars but nothing else. You don't need access to your home via a car. If you did, people who utilize other means of transportation could not live there, which is just untrue. 

    If your property doesn't have a place to store a car, you end up relying on on-street parking. If you live on a street with lots of people in the same situation, you may not find a parking spot near your place, and have to park a block or two away. Or you have access to a parking garage but it's a block away from your home, same situation. To say you need a car to access your home is simply untrue.

    To say you need access to your home via car isn't true at all, it's just a convenience thing. The point @mollusk was making was about how often the streets are being used for certain modes of transportation should dictate how we allow the street to be used, the same argument people are making about the bike lanes on 11th St. If no thru-traffic is being used on a street, and it's local residents only, then we could convert the street into a glorified driveway for those residents only. 

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  2. The train station being at POST would make it one of the best Amtrak stations in the country for food. If they could trade the parking lot near the platform with the current Amtrak parking area, I think something could work.

    There's even a pedestrian walkway underneath the highway connecting the two areas.

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  3. Has anyone looked at the safety improvements that were made in this section? 

    On 12/17/2023 at 2:21 PM, hindesky said:

    I think the worshipers thought god would smite them if they were late for services. The truth probably is the church's hierarchy thought people wouldn't show up to tithe their salaries.

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    Could this be re-worked to be safer but still allow the turning lane to the church? The new section reminds me of 11th street between Shepherd and Durham in the Heights.

  4. On 1/31/2024 at 9:48 AM, samagon said:

    the point I think wasn't that 3' sidewalks are perfectly good. the point, in the context of the statement, was "this area already has something, this area has nothing at all, let's get everyone to a place where we at least have something, and then we can get to upgrading the places with something already"

    in an imaginary scenario (which maps to real life), you have 2 areas, one has sidewalks that conform to a historic minimum standard. the other area has nothing at all. is it better:

    1. leave the area without sidewalks to still not have sidewalks, and upgrade the existing area with sidewalks to have better sidewalks.

    2. leave the area that already has sidewalks alone, and add sidewalks to the area without any sidewalks at all.

    that's the crux of what he said, getting hung up on the phrasing of 'perfectly good 3' sidewalks' is pearl clutching and ignoring the broader message, which is, let's serve the completely unserved, before we give those who have something already, extra.

    it'll be great if we can have both, I think budgets have something to do with that.

    now, if he goes in and walks the minimum sidewalk width ordinance from 5' to 3', then we can start wringing our hands, or clutching our pearls. 

    essentially, let's make sure everyone has a plate of food before we start going back for seconds.

    It's the type of statement, when both neighborhoods could benefit from 8' sidewalks, they give the neighborhood without a sidewalk a 3' sidewalk and call it a day. That's my concern. 

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  5. On 1/18/2024 at 8:45 PM, corbs315 said:

    think I noticed the printing museum was closed. or at least for lease.

    Their website says it's open by appointment only Tuesday-Thursday 10-5, and open Thursday 2-5, Friday & Saturday 11-5. So it's open for 15 hours a week. 

  6. 3 hours ago, nolaboy said:

    Why isn't there an option to trench/cap the Pierce, and leave I-45 in its current path of the west side of downtown? Considering that nearly half of I-45 will still remain in place on that side for the the downtown connector and the ROW is already there. The cap would still allow downtown/midtown to be integrated, as opposed to a much wider cap on the east side.

    The current path has a lot of pinch points that slow down traffic. The new route is supposed to fix the problem. 

  7. On 12/3/2023 at 10:35 AM, editor said:

    I saw this posted on the front door of Fifth Vessel last week.  Interesting.

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    I'm always surprised that people feel unsafe downtown.  Just because someone asks you for money doesn't mean it's not safe.  It means that there are poor people in the world.  When I see an item in the newspaper about a murder, it's usually  in Conroe or San Jacinto County.  It's almost never downtown.

    There was a guy on the train a couple of days ago ranting about "Man, downtown is hard. It's so hard. It'll eat you up.  It's just not safe without a gun."  I wanted to say to him, "Dude, calm down.  It's Houston.  It's not Atlanta.  It's not Chicago.  It's not that bad.  Get a grip."

     

     

    Day 6 closes at 6 and Chipotle at 8, I don't know if those are good places to wait for a night train.

  8. 17 hours ago, IntheKnowHouston said:


    Which time are you referring to? When Company of Nomads operated the food hall as Railway Heights Market? Or when the property owner took over management, renaming the market and food hall Railway Market?

    When a major amount of tenants left/were forced out and they started charging for parking. I remember going in early 2022 and it was really cool, and busy. I went again months later and it was empty. 

  9. 3 minutes ago, august948 said:

    Google maps has a scale in the lower right corner.  I zoomed in on the beltway until the scale was a half inch (in this case the half inch showed as 2 miles).  Then I measured the north-south and east-west with a ruler on my monitor.  Like I said, it's a rough estimate, but I couldn't find an official measurement anywhere.

    Sorry, this is what I was referring to.

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