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  1. mfastx
    That looks straight up beautiful. Flawless development as of now. My dream is for every strip center inside the loop to be replaced with something like this.
  2. mfastx
    Another surface parking lot downtown. Hooray!
  3. mfastx
    Another building torn down to let a vacant lot sit downtown. Hooray!
  4. mfastx

    METRORail Turns 20

    mfastx replied to editor's topic in Transit

    I think it's mostly a few prominent developers lobbying one certain Congressman (Culberson) into opposition which blocked the University Line. Still, for METRO to have only attempted to build one East-West line is a planning failure IMO. Westheimer is the single most low hanging fruit for rail in entire Houston area and my entire life there hasn't even been a whisper of a proposal to do that. Obviously it would have to be a subway especially east of Kirby but it makes too much sense.
  5. mfastx

    METRORail Turns 20

    mfastx replied to editor's topic in Transit

    The original Red Line was unquestionably a major success, but the lack of expansion westward to Houston's more dense communities 20 years and counting later is a failure.
  6. mfastx
    30 year design life is such a joke .. But sure let's just continue to pour billions upon billions into maintaining existing highways no questions asked.
  7. mfastx
    I mean, I'll literally take anything to replace a parking lot in the area at this point. I'm a little surprised at the lack of development around both MMP and TC in the two decades they've been there.
  8. mfastx
    Man that area south of TC desperately needs some development, what a deadzone. Hopefully this is the start of something.
  9. mfastx
    Jesus that's ugly and a huge disappointment ..
  10. mfastx
    Crazy how long a road it took to get here, but it's finally happening! I lived in the neighborhood in high school and I remember back in like '09 when we had the first "town hall" meeting at Poe about it 😄 people were so upset ..
  11. mfastx
    It is kinda sad that Houston hasn't built a supertall in like 40 years.
  12. mfastx
    Too bad this isn't at that empty lot next to Best Buy instead!
  13. mfastx
    If we're just talking about the "last mile" between the proposed NW transit center station and downtown, there doesn't need to be crazy fast fancy tracks for that stretch. Normal 79mph operation that already exists for Amtrak today would be fine. I'd imagine you'd just build an additional, electrified track within the same ROW and that'd be fine. You could use one-way operation for it.
  14. mfastx
    Is it still even under construction? Seems abandoned. EDIT: Scrolled up and saw that I asked the very same question a few months ago lmao.
  15. mfastx
    Wow, stellar job. Not!
  16. mfastx
    Can we confirm that this is still under active construction? It looks like it's been abandoned for awhile.
  17. mfastx
    Under construction for 20 years haha. Man I wish we would spend $9B on transit once in awhile.
  18. mfastx
    What a hideous building, lmao.
  19. mfastx
    I agree, so much wasted space. Build a few big parking garages and put some mixed use down there!
  20. mfastx
    To maximize any fixed guideway line (whether it's heavy rail, light rail or BRT) it shouldn't be built on railroad ROW or highways. Richmond, Westheimer and Washington Ave are all good east-west corridors to build a line and would maximize ridership. People don't want to get dropped off in the middle of a highway wasteland or along and old railroad ROW where there isn't much development.
  21. mfastx
    This area could really use another parking lot... NOT.
  22. mfastx
    The most expensive subway in the US was the 2nd Ave subway in NYC, $2.5 billion/mile. So, even assuming that exorbitant price, it'd be about a tenth of that cost. But yes - super expensive for sure. I'd serve the region well for centuries however.
  23. mfastx
    Yup exactly, but if some of the Silver Line buses took a left turn at Westpark and continued down towards the center of town, I think more people would rather take a one seat ride than transfer to the 25 at Richmond. Man the Westheimer corridor is the most prime spot in Houston for rail/subway IMO. It's by far the highest ridership bus route.
  24. mfastx
    Yea, I was going to mention that the Silver Line and University Line should overlap, so you can take a one-seat ride from the Galleria area towards downtown along Richmond.
  25. mfastx
    You just pulled that out of your ass... not remotely true. The irony here is that you haven't brought anything concrete to the discussion besides your opinions, and are criticizing me for that while I actually cited ridership data. And for that, I will excuse myself from this useless discussion.
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