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    Arrive is an apartment brand name (similar to Gables which had been on the property). The property itself is actually being named "Arrive River Oaks" and so the shops are the Shops at Arrive. It makes more sense for this company and their partners, who has no Arrive apartments in the area to make their apartment brand the primary name, while it made less sense for Gables to do so, because there is almost a Gables on every corner.
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    I have not been to the High Line, but I know Houston, and also know enough to know that downtown Houston is also not Manhattan. I understand the potential, but the highline is 3 or 4 times as long as the maximum possible distance here and its not like theres destinations nearby. I could be convinced if maybe there was at least something at one end or the other of the pierce that people would want to walk to, so it would continue to be a transportation benefit. A park? I'd want it on the ground, then existing real estate doesnt have to interact with it in new and creative ways to begin with.
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    For what benefit? Are they going to allow commercial development underneath it or something? It seems like a park on the ground, would be superior in basically every way, to an elevated park that didnt have to be elevated. Seems like they'd basically be having to maintain this giant structure long term just for the convenience of not having to cross streets to walk the length of the park, and giving up ease of access, interation between the park and the streetscape, etc.
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    "Too close to the bayou" is measure in elevation height, not distance.
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    I shake my head at this building every time I see it. I guess the color scheme is to match the other two new buildings south of this site? It looked much better when it was just bare cement gray than it does since they painted it beige. It doesn't read similarly overall like the other two where you have much more glass surface, so it ends up looking like a different color scheme design anyway.
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    I agree and hope completely that self driving cars probably leads to an increase in urban density due to scrapping the on-site parking. However, I still don't think it plays well with Houston style light rail. I think self driving taxis will be infinitely more popular and desirable than the type of local service light rail we have now. I am bullish on more rapid long distance transit like commuter rail, which I previously didn't think would really work until an inner city transit network was built out.
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    I have always been extremely enthusiastic about rail and think its great, but I don't see how expansion of light rail as currently implemented in Houston can possibly be considered without a real rethink of how transport has already changed and will change in the future. The rise of app driven ride sharing and the possibility of self-driving transport on the horizon we live in a much different world than we did in 2003. The type of rail we built seems less cost and time effective now than it did then, IMO.
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    I think any Washington corridor surface street rail line would have to run down Center St
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    I don't know how it would be paid for or how much it would cost (Im guessing that tax increment from TIRZ 15 and TIRZ 24 would be funneled into it) but that park would not be anything to sneeze at. By my rough estimate that park is over 40 acres or roughly 4 times the size of discovery green and roughly the same size as Eleanor Tinsley Park.
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    I'm sure the name he'd like to put on it is "Golden Nugget"
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    I know they are demolishing pierce. I'm not gonna get into cost and benefit, or about the pros and cons of all the ROW acquisition that would need to be done. My posts were only concerning the capacity. Its clear to me this is a massive capacity increase, mostly by expanding lanes that are signed I-10 and I-69. In east downtown the freeway cross section at Rusk is 21 lanes wide. That is a MASSIVE freeway, and to argue that these represent no capacity increase from the current elevated I45 on the pierce and US59 in east downtown which have 6-8 lanes each cannot be true. http://www.ih45northandmore.com/docs5/20160428_NHHIP_Seg3_Project_Updates.pdf Yes the yellow lanes in the diagram are similar to the already existing I-45 routed at Pierce, but my point is that most local traffic getting to downtown will be directed off those lanes onto massively expanded I-10 lanes and I69 lanes or onto direct downtown connectors. The yellow lanes are therefore not expected to carry as much traffic (mainly only through traffic that wants to go from the Gulf Freeway onto the North freeway or vice versa), and yet they have basically the same or more lanes than the Pierce currently has. This is a capacity increase.
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    It appears to me that the I-45 marked lanes in the new design (correct me if I'm very wrong) are basically express through lanes that bypass downtown. They cannot be considered as the "same 3 lanes each way" that 45 currently has because traffic on the current 45 includes people that want to exit downtown, 10, 59, or 288. With those people now shunted off 45 and onto brand new giant 12 and 14 lane I10 and I69, 3 lanes would seem very adequate for the I45 lanes, especially since we're talking express lanes with no exits. In other words, in a real sense this is NOT an expansion of 45 in the downtown sections. This is a big time capacity expansion of both I-10 and I-69, both of which seem like their marked lanes will be able to carry maybe more than 100% each of what they can right now. These two become the heavy lifters for carrying the local traffic downtown, and the I-45 lanes have the load taken off of them so they can be used for through traffic.
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    I feel like capacity of the system is greatly increased. The ROW on the east side looks like it is a massive 18 mainlanes, and on the north...16? Each freeway currently has 6 mainlanes, so combining without increasing capacity would be a highway with 12 lanes, which these ROW of 16 and 18 are 33%-50% greater than that even before I take into account what seems to be more integrated and complete feeder roads, especially in east downtown, and the managed lanes in the I-10 corridor, all seem to add up to vastly improved capacity for these roads.
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    The amount of the crown slope you can see seems different when viewed at different angles.
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    I would not be surprised if Franklin went away. Seems like the way to best integrate the site with everything is to get rid of the Franklin that exists now and run Washington Ave through the site to connect back up with Franklin at Lousiana/Smith intersection. It would add commercial frontage to the development since they would have frontage on both sides of a Washington Ave ROW as opposed to only the north side of Franklin. I would imagine that if Washington Ave could provide the same level of access as Franklin currently does, the city would be pleased to open Buffalo Bayou park and the pedestrian paths in that area up to the open sky, and those same paths could then be linked in with the post office site.
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    Following the California system would be more like combining the A&M and Texas systems into one, and moving Texas Tech and UH, etc back into the State University system. You wouldnt even have to mess with the PUF or HEF.
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    Let's not rewrite history here. Houston was historically the second largest university in Texas and was actually a private school until the state had to bail them out and put them in the State University system in the 1960's. There is no long history of the state unfairly failing to fund a fledgling university or whatever. Nor is there really some kind of "Houston is too young" type thing happening here. Houston was churning out a much larger pool of alumni in the 50's 60's and 70's than say Texas A&M was until the end of the 70s, just as an example.
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    Why would it be unfair to you? According to this thread you turned down a PUF funded education and are happy about it now.
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    The way you present this argument is that Texas and A&M only became premier because of the PUF but its much more basic and fundamental than that. Texas and A&M are premier because the state constitution expressly advocated the creation of a premier university including the agricultural and mechanical portion (presumably to qualify for federal land grants as well) and created the PUF to achieve this goal. Why should Houston get PUF funding? Just because it exists and Houston wants it? Give me a break.
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    To go further into my post about the purpose of the PUF...it is in sections 10 and 11 of article 7 of the state constitution. The PUF was created in Section 11 specifically to fund the creation of the items in Section 10, which ended up being The University of Texas and the A&M College of Texas
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    Handouts? The PUF was specifically created to fund the University of Texas and Texas A&M. Period. Thats what it was created to do not some ambiguous "fund all university public eductaion in Texas" or whatever Cougars and Red Raiders and whoever else that wants a "handout" now believes It was actually probably created specifically to fund Texas only, but A&M got its piece basically because it dates to a murky time when it wasn't clear that the A&M College was going to be a separate entity from the University of Texas.
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    Yes, they do.
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    Regarding students enrolled at UofH and Texas Tech and their supposed inferior status...yes I can assure you that A&M students and Texas students do feel superior. University education is a bit of a meritocracy, you have to actually apply for entry and everything. I'm pretty sure there is no state in the country that intends for all of the Universities they fund to be equal to one another.
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    50 minutes from 290 to 59 is a ridiculous number and does not exist unless there would be an accident that shuts down all or most lanes, which is something that could happen on any freeway. 20 minutes is really bad traffic likely only due to construction of some kind. Full speed is less than 5 minutes. 10-15 is a bad rush hour.
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    No way that's a troll. That guy is 100% serious, no troll would go dig up those arguments thats the kind of things people dig up to "shut down the enemy" when the enemy is identified. It reads like an sm3h vs ainbender post.
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