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mfastx

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  1. 23 hours ago, editor said:

    Agreed.  From what I've heard, the problem is mostly the neighborhood groups opposing trains down the main east-west streets.  Is that true?

    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. 

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  2. 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. 

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  3. 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. 

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  4. 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. 

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  5. 10 hours ago, cspwal said:

    I think Westheimer only gets a rapid transit route as a subway, and that's only happening with drastically reduced construction costs for subways.  A subway line there could be the backbone of the western metro network if it existed, but it would be easily $100 billion 

    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. 

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  6. 14 hours ago, 004n063 said:

    It'll be Westpark to Edloe, so from the Galleria you'd have to take the Silver line to the transit center first, then transfer to the University line. Can't imagine anybody doing that. Hopefully the #25 is able to keep running up to Edloe.

    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. 

    11 hours ago, samagon said:

    I'd think west of the Galleria area, maybe starting at Chimney Rock, Westheimer would be prime for BRT.

    Bellaire from 59 to highway 6 would be good too.

    Man the Westheimer corridor is the most prime spot in Houston for rail/subway IMO. It's by far the highest ridership bus route. 

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  7. 34 minutes ago, samagon said:

    the probability of BRT, or LRT going through Afton Oaks is about 0. additionally, an alignment of any BRT, or LRT on Westheimer is about 0. east of Shephard the ROW is so narrow they can barely fit the traffic lanes. west of Shepherd River Oaks would be as welcoming as Afton Oaks was towards mass transit.

    it would be great to see the Silver line go along the same ROW as the University BRT, and then turn south on Chimney Rock, or Renwick. perhaps it could even do a circuit at that part, go west from the transit center, south on Renwick, east on Gulfton, north on Chimney Rock and then back to the transit center.

    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. 

  8. 20 hours ago, chempku said:

    But since most voters and experts believe BRT is better than LRT for Houston (otherwise the BRT-emphasized METRONEXT won't be planned and approved), and it seems you don't quite agree with it, apparently it would benefit a lot if you can elaborate why you believe LRT will be a better option, using more concrete numbers, examples, and arguments? The majority could be wrong of course. 

    You just pulled that out of your ass... not remotely true. 

    19 hours ago, mattyt36 said:

    Whoa boy … Irony is dead (as is often the case with the transit crowd).

    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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  9. 5 hours ago, mattyt36 said:

    @mfastx buddy, you're being disingenuous (the above comment is in fact "all out of thin air," as some would say).  What I wrote was:

    Please respond to the above instead of pointing out superficially that Uptown is the second largest employment center in Houston as if that "fast fact" counteracts the substance of the above.  What do you specifically disagree with?  You're running buses to connect parking lots.  It's called the gravity model.  This stuff isn't difficult, which I'm sure you know.

    Yup, that's what I thought, no counterexamples. 

    15 hours ago, chempku said:

    Do you have some financial analysis that supported by realistic numbers and assupmtions? 

    Lmao, so that's what's required to post on HAIF, a peer reviewed research paper? Gimme a break .. 

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