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Bike lanes are good for business
samagon replied to hindesky's topic in Bicycles and Other Low-Impact Modes
I don't understand needing to go through neighborhood streets though. I can easily go up to the next intersection, do a u-turn, and then go right on 11th there should be a solution for a left turn though. I have to wonder if there might be enough room for a roundabout? well, I'm sure with this mayor that won't happen, but maybe for the next mayor they can at least go measure the dimensions to see if it would fit TXDoT recommended specs. -
the real selling point is safety. a driver going 30, or 35, instead of 40, or 45 is far less likely to cause serious injury, or fatality in an accident. and with the slower speed, may even be able to avoid the accident all together. considering 30, or 35 is the speed limit anyway. in a world where cars are getting substantially larger and heavier, slower is safer.
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Lower Westheimer Road Construction
samagon replied to trymahjong's topic in Traffic and Transportation
when water isn't present in the ground, it has less volume, and settles. so if there's a roadway on top of that settled ground, it too will settle. this doesn't happen uniformly. this is very important around your house, so while it sounds silly, you may need to water your foundation. -
Lower Westheimer Road Construction
samagon replied to trymahjong's topic in Traffic and Transportation
no matter what they would have done, this would be the thing. the drought last year kicked a lot of streets in the butt. last spring they scraped and redid the asphalt on MLK going into UH campus, drive it today and you'd have no idea it's been less than a year. -
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if the end result is the bus drivers not straddling lanes, I can't wait for this to be completed.
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Bullritos was having major issues for a while, a new owner came in and was hardly ever open, that lasted a semester. every semester Pinks seemed to have fewer people. I was shocked about Jimmy Johns, there always seemed to be deliveries happening, or customer. I'm glad to see someone is coming in.
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and this too. Dollar General Bill White though. I mean, I will say that every time I drove on this stretch, 1/4 of the cars didn't pay attention to the lane directions anyway.
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a gas line broken, and a water line broken, it's as if some omnipotent being is telling us that the pedestrian improvements should have been kept. all we need now is for the company doing the work to go bankrupt in the middle of the project for my bingo card to be filled.
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how long do the neighbors keep their signs in their yards?
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yep, anything that opens this spring will be 'soft' and come with no fanfare.
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hopefully they can keep doing this good work and remove any medians from Westheimer as well, all the way from 610 to Highway 6. that's sarcastic by the way.
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samagon replied to trymahjong's topic in Traffic and Transportation
alternatively, that's the guy stuck behind the metro bus that is straddling both lanes and only going 15 MPH. -
well, they can't give the neighborhood without a sidewalk a 3' sidewalk. the current ordinance states 5' is minimum. https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/sidewalk-regulations.html
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oh yeah, if money were no object, then why not both, I think anyone would be in violent agreement with that. money is an object though, and it's something that is only available in finite amounts.
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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.
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TxDOT Proposes Elevating I-10 near I-45
samagon replied to Triton's topic in Traffic and Transportation
once TXDoT has rebuilt all the freeways so they will no longer impact commercial trucking with flooding, they will rebuild the freeways again because we need them to act as flood basins. we will go back and forth in this manner until there is no more concrete available.- 187 replies
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contextually that makes complete sense. make sure everyone has the bare minimum to survive (or in this case, travel safely), and when that's done, then we can do more.
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TxDOT Proposes Elevating I-10 near I-45
samagon replied to Triton's topic in Traffic and Transportation
when was the last time the Houston Freeways book was updated? on that website it says construction on that section of 59 was done in 2006. the watermark on that photo says 2011. according to this website, that section of freeway flooded during Harvey. https://www.news4jax.com/weather/2022/08/25/5-years-ago-remembering-devastating-flooding-from-hurricane-harvey/ at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. TXDoT is going to ram this through because as was mentioned they have to spend all their money on freeways, or the money goes away. if we want to see any changes, then we have to get our representatives to change how TXDoT is required to spend money so they spend money on more than just solutions for vehicle travel.- 187 replies
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it's hard to see on any of the photos except this one, but the top right, you can see a walkway, there's an entrance to the building, that is what will be the entry/exit, the portion that still has excavators, and work trucks, that is going to not be open until the complete building is open later this year. whether Feb5, or later next week, or even early the following week, we're closer than it looks from these photos.
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TxDOT Proposes Elevating I-10 near I-45
samagon replied to Triton's topic in Traffic and Transportation
don't disagree with you. the claim by TXDoT that flooding causing breaks in commercial traffic and citing how much commerce was impacted is an atrocious argument. I could give two shits about long haul trucking needs through Houston. if TXDoT comes at me with the number of people have died on that stretch of road because of flooding, ok, now you have my attention, but throwing the commercial impact like that matters to locals? that reasoning makes it very clear that the safety and lives of humans who use those freeways daily are less important than moving freight, unless I missed that part of the presentation where they talk about mitigating people getting stuck in a flooded car on the freeway and drowning. sorry for not coming out and just saying that from the get go, it's just that kind of a statement on a presentation just really pulls out that kind of snarky reply. anyway, let's not talk about raising Houston's freeways, we just talked about going below grade on all of them around downtown. I guess because they aren't in a bayou floodplain, but then, neither is 59 near Montrose, and one of the most iconic pictures of flooded highways in Houston is a dude kayaking down 59. and we just saw 288 get a shiny new refresh, that goes right through a bayou, floods regularly because it is in a bayou floodplain, and all they did was add (managed) lanes. there's little consistency, so it's hard for me to accept a rebuild because of floodplain to really be a thing. I guess maybe the amount of commercial impact on 288 was less, so who cares if it floods, right? and let's not even discuss that the commercial impact argument ignores that there are alternate routes to avoid a flooded I-10. 610 (either direction), beltway 8 (either direction), soon to be Grand Parkway.- 187 replies
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TxDOT Proposes Elevating I-10 near I-45
samagon replied to Triton's topic in Traffic and Transportation
how many of the flooding events happened during an evacuation? the same answer is true. the evacuation happens before the event. there is a point when the message changes from "evacuate" to our favorite term "shelter in place". sometimes, before an event, there isn't time for city, or county officials to execute an evacuation plan and we go straight to shelter in place. no one ever is recommended to evacuate during an event, that creates an even worse possible scenario of being stranded without any shelter at all. the city, county or state will never issue an evacuation order when it is not safe to travel, if it determined to not be safe to travel, the evacuation will stop and it will transition to shelter in place. so no, your scenario of a freeway being inundated with water during an evacuation will never happen, nor has it ever happened. I can think of one scenario where the media sent the entire town into a frenzy, which overwhelmed the infrastructure, people who had not been instructed to evacuate, attempted to flee, in essence, the freeways were shut down due to people running out of gas and making the freeways (all of them) impassible, so people were still in evacuation mode (even though the official statement had shifted from evacuate to shelter in place). we were extremely lucky that none of the freeways flooded at that time and the storm took a late turn and went in farther east. anyway, that is an excellent example of why there will never be an evacuation order at the same time as there is potential flooding, we will be in shelter in place.- 187 replies
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TxDOT Proposes Elevating I-10 near I-45
samagon replied to Triton's topic in Traffic and Transportation
and flooded isn't necessarily impassable. I wonder during that same 32 year history, how many times was the freeway shut down for construction? all lanes, in all directions? duration for those, I expect 9pm Friday evening through 5am Monday morning to be the duration... I can think of 2 or 3 times alone for the Elysian street viaduct rebuild. probably more than the times it's been shut down for floods.- 187 replies
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they grow pretty quick, in about 10 years these will be pretty big. cypress knees suck though.
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East End Backyard At 1105 Sampson St.
samagon replied to HoustonMidtown's topic in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston
weird. every time I went they had plenty of people drinking and having a good time. I did notice it was closed on Saturday afternoon when I went by to drop off the Christmas stuff at the storage unit.