Blue Dogs Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Ladies & gentlemen, former Houston Mayor Bob Lanier (D), who served from 1992-1998, passed away yesterday afternoon at his River Oaks home at the age of 89.http://abc13.com/news/former-houston-mayor-bob-lanier-dies-at-age-89-/445099http://www.myfoxhouston.com/Reaction from anyone on his legacy & accomplishments during his 3 terms in office ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Rest in peace, Bob. In reading his legacy, he was a great mayor for a great city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 A good mayor. A good citizen. RIP, Sir. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Dogs Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 Funeral services for Lanier are set for tomorrow morning, December 23rd at 11:00am in the Jasek Chapel of George H. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.Following services, private interment will follow at the Memorial Oaks Cemetery in Houston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbcu Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 if he never killed the monorail in favor of his personal projects..man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 if he never killed the monorail in favor of his personal projects..man The monorail (or people mover) was Lyle Langley's Kathryn Whitmire's pet project voted not on the people but by her own METRO board. The people voted in a, and here's a quote from a 1/3/1988 Chron article, a "non-binding referendum" for a long-term METRO plan. I realize Lanier's anti-rail push was controversial, but don't distort facts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbcu Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 he pushed for suburban sprawl and got it...that's his legacy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 he pushed for suburban sprawl and got it...that's his legacy and it's not a bad legacy. There's nothing really wrong with sprawl, especially when there are no geographical contraints. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 he pushed for suburban sprawl and got it...that's his legacy That is unfair with regard to his time as mayor. He was quite focused on and accomplished a lot in making the city of Houston, including the inner city more liveable, by reducing crime, raising the standards of the parks and making infrastructure improvements. I recall him saying (I'm paraphrasing): If I can't provide a place where people prefer to live when the alternative is an hour-long commute, then shame on me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbcu Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 livable inner city? tearing down and stripping 4th ward to the core in places or townhomes? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 (edited) livable inner city? tearing down and stripping 4th ward to the core in places or townhomes? lol Bob Lanier hasn't been mayor in about 17 years, with redevelopment in areas like Montrose and Freedmen's Town mostly in points after that, and that's mostly because the land value was so high that it was more profitable to build that sort of thing. You'd rather have the inner city be some low land value wasteland that no one wants to build on? Sorry kid, but you're either blaming something that Lanier didn't actually do or treating the whole gentrification of the inner loop like a bad thing, which it isn't, crappy townhomes and "Texas donuts" aside. Quit trolling, if you don't have anything nice to say about Lanier, don't post. Edited January 5, 2015 by IronTiger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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