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    I believe Frontier is switching over to Hobby around that time, maybe that's what they mean.
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    I believe their top speed is around 60-70 mph.
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    METRORail Green Line

    mfastx replied to a topic in Transit

    Thanks for sharing these photos, hopefully construction will pick up on these lines soon.
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    Good point, thay may be true, but those visitors might be staying at that very hotel lol.
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    Many people on here seem to think that when I brought up the idea that downtown Houston could use more lighting, I meant Vegas-style lighting. Not at all, Houston should have more classy lighting than Vegas. A perfect example would be the new Methodist building, they just completed the exterior lighting and it looks great. No neon, but a more classy type of lighting, which enhances the building's architecture. There is such as thing as tasteful exterior lighting, would Williams Tower be as iconic without the rotating beacon at night? Houston has some great examples of architecture, why keep them hidden at night? I'm glad Discovery Tower has the top/windmill structure lit up at night, it makes the building stand out. I'm beginning to think that some posters are embarrassed by our architecture, and do not want anyone to see our beautiful buildings at night. I've never seen anyone so adamantly opposed to lighting, it can be beautiful if done right.
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    I did a search on downtown lighting, and I'm not about to go through the hundreds of pages of threads to find a few of your pictures. And sorry, I just can't take your word for it, either. The darkest downtown I've seen in any other big city at this time is San Diego, but they have company lighting on almost all of their buildings, to be honest I don't think downtown's lack of lighting is due to the recession, it' just that I think that the owners don't give a shit about lighting. Sure downtown lighting doesn't matter, blah, blah, blah but I'm sure you'll find that many people think downtown Houston is boring at night, and why not light it up to make it less boring? The top 5 cities in the US's downtown lighting: Now you would think that since Houston has supposedly fared better than others during the reccesion, they wouldn't be so broke as to not afford lighting. So I just can't see how that is the case. I think it is simply the "I don't care how my building looks, I just want to make as much money possible" attitude, which is fine, but is doesn't make the city any better IMO.
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    Wells Fargo Bank Plaza used to have a greenish light surrounding the top, but after Hurricane Ike, the greenish light was only on a small section of the top. I'm not sure if that small section is still on today however, but it was obvious something happenend to it. Compare these two pics: The first picture was taken before Ike, the second after. In the second one, you can see a small strip of the greenish lighting above the Wells Fargo Bank Plaza still illuminated, of course later they turned it off.
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    I honestly think the building owners can afford to keep ample lighting on, as evidenced by the pre-Ike lighting schemes. I think Hurricane Ike destroyed some lighting, and the issue is just that the owners don't want to spend the time to fix it. I just would like the city to look nice, is that such a bad thing to ask? And I guess these "real life issues" occur only in Houston? Please post a picture of a major city that has no building lighting, such as our own? Because I can't seem to find such a picture, I'm sure there's one though.
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    Of course I have. I have family that work in offices and they say the cleaning crews/custodians do their thing, and leave the lights on all night after they've finished.
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    Well I'm glad to hear that, I thought Embassy Suites owned it because they included surface parking on that side of the block on their site plan. If the don't own it, how are they allowed to tear it up during construction?
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    No I am talking about the interior lights always on on all of the completed buildings, I was just talking about downtown in general (I know off topic lol sorry) Actually I am quite satisfied with the Hess Tower lighting.
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    IIRC, the rest of the block is owned by Embassy Suites, so they would have to buy the parking spaces from them in order to build anything. I would rather they build on the five other surface lots in the picture now though lol.
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    I know you're being sarcastic, but I definately prefer this over a complete surface lot. It's just a bummer that Embassy Suites owns the whole block, so no other building (in the near future) will be built on the remaining surface lot.
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    Guess not. The only thing I can think of is that Houston is trying to be "energy efficient" I read that in the news. But other than that, pleas fill me in.
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    Yeah but this isn't even complete infill. This only infilled about half of a small block, there's still going to be surface parking on this lot.
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    What a sad, depressing world this would be if each building were like this. Why are people against lighting? Downtown would certainly look much better like this: Now, downtown looks dead at night, hopefully the Hess Tower lighting can inspire these boring owners. Heck, even the Methodist Outpatient Center turned off it's lights, what's the deal?
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    I just wish they would still let me up to the sky lobby/observation deck.
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    Well they definately won't lose power during the next hurricane.
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    I have no idea. But I would assume that option 3 is the same as option C.
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    Great idea, and it only cost half as much as the Katy Freeway expansion. Too bad work won't start on this for a couple of years.
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    Holy cow! Houston has never seen see architecture like that before, oh well, it probably wont get built though, lol.
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    How many floors to go? I think it's already past 22, but it seems as if there's still some more to go.
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    Great photos, always liked that area of town. It's kind of sad to think about how at the birthplace of our town, there's an abandoned building.
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    So I guess it wasn't topped out just yet after all.
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    I have an idea, they should build a theme par..... Oh.... right.
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