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  1. Slick Vik
    Those 100,000 could take 610 or 59. Most of them would avoid the surface street. And the reason is I want the city to be a better place aesthetically not just a place that's convenient for cars.
  2. Slick Vik
    There is a severe difference of opinion here. Some of us have a vision of what there could be without the pierce. Others can't imagine houston without the pierce because of fear of the unknown. Irontiger who for the most part I don't see eye to eye with on anything had one reasonable idea, shut it down 3-6 months and see what happens.
  3. Slick Vik
    Ambiguous use? That's subjective
  4. Slick Vik
    San Francisco, Seoul, Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland haven't been losing population
  5. Slick Vik
    Not to mention Syracuse, New Orleans, New Haven, Detroit, Cleveland and other cities where freeway removal is being pondered. Cleveland has actually begun removal of portions. Also you forgot Milwaukee.
  6. Slick Vik
    Traffic would ideally go to 610 east. People just passing through downtown to go north don't need to take 45. If you care about the future of the city and not the routing of an automobile the intelligent thing to do would remove the pierce and the traffic would adapt. Fear mongering is a Fox News tactic, when all else fails.
  7. Slick Vik
    I've gone under the shepherd underpass hundreds of times and never seen a single person trying to walk under it. The pierce does divide midtown and downtown and thus is unnecessary: 1+1 = 2. As for the childish name calling instead of letting the thread devolve I'll let you whoop your aggie pride.
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    Kicking the bucket on mass transit is an ignorant path and will just lead to higher costs down the line.Saying talking about the land value of pierce is rambling while talking about painting undersides of bridges as a solution to something is, ironic. Induced demand is simple. If people see something they use it. So take it away and they won't. The pierce is unnecessary, if it wasn't there people would adjust to 59 and hopefully 610. People that have no reason to cross downtown cause unnecessary congestion.
  9. Slick Vik
    Alternative 11 sounds the best out of the options but it's unfortunate that 59 has to be widened as a result. All a catch 22
  10. Slick Vik
    I didn't drop insults I said the majority of UH students commute and generally they can't get in or perhaps can't afford a better school. That being said I'm happy it's improving good for it.
  11. Slick Vik
    It's UH people that always have the inferiority complex. I don't even hear UT or Rice or A&M people talk about UH. Nothing wrong with UH I'm happy it's improving but it's not really in the same league as a university overall.
  12. Slick Vik
    Maybe that's the case for that particular major but schools are ranked where they are for a reason.
  13. Slick Vik
    I would say that has more to do with 1% than UH but congratulations nonetheless
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    Longhorn
  15. Slick Vik
    That's still 75% commuting. I would also disagree on ROI because Rice, A&M, and Rice are considered much better universities. They look at UH students as the ones who couldn't get in the better schools, or in the rare case, took full scholarships.
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    METRORail Green Line

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    The good news is after thid downtown work there won't any more going forward
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    METRORail Green Line

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    Also graffiti issues at some stations
  18. Slick Vik
    I wonder if that means you have to be lower income to qualify to live there
  19. Slick Vik
    I did. I said I was from India for years when I went overseas to avoid confrontations. Obama was popular at the beginning but he's starting to lose favor also but not to that level.
  20. Slick Vik
    Won't happen because of the historic designation stuff. That being said it's the most reasonable plan the power brokers have come up with so far. However I would like to see the roof left on in some way, that grad student's idea, the roof was always the best part of the dome.
  21. Slick Vik
    The reception was pretty chilly during the bush years
  22. Slick Vik
    There's a reason it's free at UH, it's UH and not UT or A and M.
  23. Slick Vik
    I do. My point was it would've been much cheaper to retrofit hobby then build a new terminal. But I believe the terms of the deal required a new terminal.
  24. Slick Vik
    Explain airports like Austin and San Antonio where there is no segregation of outgoing passengers and no separate building just for customs that I know of for incoming international passengers.
  25. Slick Vik
    It was part of the deal. There are plenty of terminals globally where customs facilities are built later for a few million to handle international flights.
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