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  1. ADCS
    Huh, guess we're not praying so much for this anymore.
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    That is its own separate issue, and something I believe needs reforming within the UT system.
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    If that's the case, then why doesn't UH roll into the UT system? Same outcome with less bureaucratic overhead.
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    Again, the fact that the PUF is continually brought up just serves to demonstrate that this is about bureaucratic politics, rather than what's actually good for the state. Bring up UCLA all you want, but notice the "UC" there: they're part of the same system as UC - Berkeley and all their sister institutions, and subject to systemwide oversight (with considerable independence). If UH wants that PUF money, and to exist within a known successful framework, then they should be looking at a merger with UT or A&M, rather than engaging in spiteful turf wars.
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    Yup, football and avarice. Face it - UH didn't care about the acquisition process one bit. Fertitta thinks the university that's an extension of his ego doesn't get the state funds that it deserves, simply because he's associated with it. So he's going to engineer a block until he either gets the football he wants, or the money he wants. The truth is we do not need more state systems. California demonstrates that a two-system public model, with different missions, that all state schools are a part of, is the best functioning model. We will never have this in Texas, though, because there are too many entrenched bureaucrats in the smaller systems, and too many alumni for whom a reorganization would be a shot to their pride. Again, primarily because of football.
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    And there it is. UH will keep obstructing until they get ahold of that sweet oil cash, good of the city and region be damned. Especially since they couldn't make it into the Big 12. Disgusting, really.
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    So glad to see that typical Texan parochialism and territoriality won the day here /s
  8. ADCS
    Well, it sounds like you're not their target market, then.
  9. ADCS
    I read that Buc-ee's was funding much of the opposition to the line. Can anyone verify or debunk this?
  10. ADCS
    Not only that, but the new 45 lanes only carry through traffic - local traffic will take the Downtown Connector. This further reduces movements and conflicts along that stretch.
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    Atlanta's a bit of a special case, though, with middle to upper-middle class whites living almost entirely north of Downtown. These folks, the primary Braves season ticketholders, didn't want to go to the "bad part of town" 81 nights a year.
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    1. Agree that TxDOT should do a better job of directing traffic onto bypass routes. Then again, they hardly put control cities on major interstate junctions around here. Never understood why. 2. Do you have engineering schematics demonstrating that everything they're planning on adding can be handled with minimal ROW expansion in existing corridors?
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    Slowing traffic isn't necessarily a bad thing as long as it keeps moving. This is a highway in the center of the city - serving through traffic at high speed isn't necessarily the ideal use of the corridors. Again, if you're going from north of Houston to Galveston or vice-versa, best practices would have you taking the East Loop, anyway. The problem with the current pinches isn't a reduction in speed - it's last minute and indecisive merging from unexpected lane ends (particularly the 45NB to 288/59SB) causing conflicts within and backpressure on the traffic flow. Part of the reason for the current design plans, by my estimation, is that reconfiguring the Pierce Elevated to meet these design goals would be too expensive due to the needed land acquisition.
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    I think many of them realize that cities develop around the infrastructure provided for them, and in ways influenced by that infrastructure. We put auto-centric infrastructure in (and always at a high capital investment), we will have an auto-centric city. Likewise, if there is a comprehensive rail system, development will take advantage of that system. The musculature builds around the bones.
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    None of that follows in the least bit. The dislike for trains seems to be ideological primarily, as they chafe against a certain conception of "freedom" that's popular around here. Cars are seen as promoting "freedom", even though no one is proposing to abolish cars, and the implementation of more lanes and elimination of potential rail routes leaves us less free to choose modes. You're the one projecting racism there - it's more classism in my mind. Just look at the Heights fight over beer and wine sales if you don't think it's there.
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    You can't possibly believe this has anything to do with the real world. The primary driver of transit policy in this city is not efficiency; it's making sure the wrong people stay out of the right neighborhoods. It's territoriality and NIMBYism. Just check out the TCR fights if you don't believe me.
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    Right. We subsidize other options that would otherwise be unavailable were it not for state intervention, and then throw a fit when someone wants to put a train line in. Point being, it's all the same thing - policy choices.
  18. ADCS
    Ha. Try again.
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    Sure, but that's not much of an issue if you'd like to see that form changed, is it?
  20. ADCS
    Choices have consequences. We can't subsidize the suburbs forever.
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    IT, if you really care about the answers to those questions, go to the meeting tonight. Bring them up. There will be engineers there to help with those details. However, I think you'll find it most effective if you're not trying to force your opinion on the project's experts.
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    http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/Audit-finds-faults-with-TxDOT-design-build-checks-9184040.php?t=0b0f5c7ecc438d9cbb&cmpid=reddit-premium There were a few tidbits in there - Construction to start next year Portions will be built as a Texas Super-2 (similar to the existing I-2)
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    There's the whole revival of the Biafra separatism issue along with the ongoing Boko Haram and associated Sahel extremism. Nigeria is going to be a mess for a while, possibly a decade or more.
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    Thing is, though, Houston's freeway landscapes, with the interminable feeder roads, are almost uniquely hostile toward public transit in all but park-and-ride setups.
  25. ADCS
    My guess is that the primary purpose for the campus is proximity to major rail, air and sea connections, minimizing costs both for personnel and equipment.
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