texasboy Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Some city officials want news racks off the streets 06:56 PM CDT on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 By Doug Miller / 11 News Read all about it -- some of Houston's city council members are upset about paper racks. What is bothering them isn't so much the newspaper racks as the advertising sheets popping up on city sidewalks. But the city might have a hard time controlling what critics call sidewalk clutter. Read More: http://www.khou.com/news/local/politics/st...s.c1316df1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gto250us Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Well, if Houston developers put shops and stores on the ground floors of the office buildings, with street access, there would be no need for so many paper boxes. Seems to me they should work on getting the bums off of the street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternGulf Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Nooo. Those things make for some good tripods for my camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Nooo. Those things make for some good tripods for my camera. i know the feeling! much better than the nasty trash cans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Well, if Houston developers put shops and stores on the ground floors of the office buildings, with street access, there would be no need for so many paper boxes. Seems to me they should work on getting the bums off of the street. If you take away the free newspaper stand boxes. That starts a chain reaction, no free newspaper access means no free "blankets" for the bums, no free blankets for the bums means , disgruntled bums who need to go elsewhere to find free blankets. The great migration starts and all bums go to Dallas to find blankets. The city council are a bunch of Geniuses. They know exactly what they are doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjb434 Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 ^^^LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 You gotta admit these things are junk. Who reads this junk anyway?But it's not just bums. I see "normal" litter bugs on Congress get a paper, take a look, and then toss it.The bigger issue is that downtown is just pretty dirty for the most part. We need to be a much better job of picking up our trash. I wish all the buidlings downtown could do such a nice job cleaing their buildings in the moring as Commerce Towers does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokieone Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 I wonder why they would concentrate on the newspaper bins and don't concentrate on something useful, such as cleaning up what apparently is known as the PSH (pigeon shite hotel), the area under I-45 and by Pierce elevated. I think nothing in downtown and I mean nothing is as dirty as that area. I love the No Trespassing Signs. Yet there are regularly I'd say about 100-200 people under there hanging out on lawn chairs, matresses, some apparently living in cars. Trash everywhere. But I guess the newspaper racks come first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gto250us Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 You gotta admit these things are junk. Who reads this junk anyway?But it's not just bums. I see "normal" litter bugs on Congress get a paper, take a look, and then toss it.The bigger issue is that downtown is just pretty dirty for the most part. We need to be a much better job of picking up our trash. I wish all the buidlings downtown could do such a nice job cleaing their buildings in the moring as Commerce Towers does.I agree. Houston is one of the dirtiest major cities that I have ever seen. Even New York is cleaner. However, trash cans are rare in downtown. Some bus stops have them but otherwise there are not many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Remember the days when business swept the streets, washed the sidewalks, etc?Seems like that's an after thought now days.And Metro is very laxed about emptying the cans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUCAJUN Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 I agree. Houston is one of the dirtiest major cities that I have ever seen. Even New York is cleaner. However, trash cans are rare in downtown. Some bus stops have them but otherwise there are not many. New York City ? That's the filthiest city in the country. are you high?no comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gto250us Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 I didn't say Brookyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokieone Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Definitely agree on the trash can issue. Seems like they are not there or full. Thus after being full, people keep putting stuff in. I don't think as a whole downtown is filthy, just certain parts. Anything close to I-45 - filthy. By the Montague - filthy. Most of anything off Louisiana, clean. Seriously, drive down louisiana or travis and a lot looks absolutely pristine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 Yep, I work at 1100 Louisana and in the morning it feels like I am walking into Mr. Hooper's store on Sesame Street. Spic and span. But even 2 Houston Center (which has some decent companies) needs a good morning scrub. Not sure why they don't, or The guys in the Fantasy Island suits need to expand their territory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 The redone streets all have trashcans. Downtown Houston, Inc. is supposed to keep them emptied. Sometimes they are on top of it, sometimes not. Downtowners, if you see one overflowing, email or call Downtown Houston or 311. It's up to us to help out.As for the news bins, they are definitely breeding. When the county took them away for Rita, it looked really nice and clean downtown. I wish they would have lost them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Ok. I may be alone on this one. I like the newspaper thingies. They add a certain urban grit to downtown, especially in the winter time. Same reason I kinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarr2001 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 I agree. Houston is one of the dirtiest major cities that I have ever seen. Even New York is cleaner. However, trash cans are rare in downtown. Some bus stops have them but otherwise there are not many.The other day driving home from downtown I saw a man eating a hamburger and then tossing the wrapper on the ground instead of in the trash can mere inches from where the paper hit! Some people just don't care and see nothing wrong with throwing trash on the ground trash can or not. The challenge is to get everyone to care about living in a clean environment and too some extent about getting people to care about the welfare of others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 The other day driving home from downtown I saw a man eating a hamburger and then tossing the wrapper on the ground instead of in the trash can mere inches from where the paper hit! Some people just don't care and see nothing wrong with throwing trash on the ground trash can or not. The challenge is to get everyone to care about living in a clean environment and too some extent about getting people to care about the welfare of others. i wish that were possible...on the way to work today, plastic wrap was jettisoned onto the freeway from a vehicle in front of me, and of course the countless cigarette butts. i don't think alot of smokers realize or care that cigarette butts are trash too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 I feel guilty about flicking a booger out the window, much less something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I feel guilty about flicking a booger out the window, much less something else. 2112, that booger is biodegradeable, or was probably a snack for an insect or bird, don't sweat it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Ok. I may be alone on this one. I like the newspaper thingies. They add a certain urban grit to downtown, especially in the winter time. Same reason I kinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I like the news racks. They're among the few things at street level downtown (at least in the 'Skyline District' ) which are at human scale and serve a useful purpose. Uncluttered is one thing, but the sterility of parts of downtown is offputting - rather like I imagine Brazilia must have been like, circa 1956. Woudn't mind seeing food pushcarts and newsstands, too. To walk down block after block where there's only one uninviting doorway every few hundred feet (or none at all) and nothing but sheer facades to look at is not condusive to a lively urban landscape. It's boring and alienating. We can perpetuate the mistakes architects made twenty or thirty years ago, and massage a few corporate egos; or, we can use a bit of creativity to bring life to what too often is a vast, eerie wasteland. In space, no one can hear you scream.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Woudn't mind seeing food pushcarts and newsstands, too.i think these would be great. and definitely do-able. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I like to see some of those street kiosks (trafika) that you see in Prauge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 i think these would be great. and definitely do-able. They are easily doable, but the restaurant association killed them off as some sort of competition to their sit down restaurants. Imagine, I could eat at Vic and Anthony's, but no, I think I'll just get a hotdog from this food cart instead. Puhlease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I thought there is a hotdog cart outside the courthouse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 maybe you're right, red... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 maybe you're right, red... I could have gone all day without seeing the "____DOG !" Thanks Sev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Those things give me the schnitz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 diarrhea dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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