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Plans for bus-only lanes along Post Oak Boulevard in the Uptown area moved forward Thursday when a key committee recommended spending $62 million in federal funds. Members of the Houston-Galveston Area Council's transportation improvement program subcommittee approved the spending, a month after delaying a decision so staff could study the issue more, especially regarding plans for the buses to use lanes along Loop 610. In the end, after that additional analysis, planners found the project to build bus-only lanes along Post Oak and offer dedicated service between two park and ride lots is worthwhile, even without the freeway component. "This project would score exactly in the middle of the highest tier," said Alan Clark, manager of transportation and air quality programs at the Houston-Galveston council. Two more approvals from a technical committee and the region's transportation policy committee are needed for the project to receive the federal funds. Uptown's plan centers on offering bus rapid transit service along Post Oak, between a planned Westpark transit center south of U.S. 59 and west of Loop 610, and the Northwest Transit Center near 610 and Interstate 10. Buses would run the route in special center lanes along Post Oak, then using either elevated lanes along 610, or existing city streets north of where Post Oak meets Loop 610. Combined, the Westpark transit center and rapid transit project and Post Oak improvements are estimated to cost about $148 million. The work along Loop 610 is considered a separate $40 million project, which likely will follow the bus upgrades, set to open in 2017. About $30 million of the overall project will be spent buying right of way to widen Post Oak by 16 feet for the new lanes, said John Breeding, president of the Uptown Management District. He stressed drivers along Post Oak will still have the exact same number of lanes and access. Uptown, funded through a tax increment reinvestment zone, is paying just more than half of the costs. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Uptown-transit-plan-back-on-the-road-4585111.php

The best Indian food in the city is Desi grill food truck off veterans memorial

Do Muslims not have the same rights as anyone else?

The federal government subsidized everything about the building of suburbs, from interestate highways to housing. And yes there is a tremendous bias in school funding when urban schools are compared to suburban. This suburban life was methodically built it didn't show up out of nowhere, and a lot of people got rich out of it.

I can say about 95% of the people I know my age are not going out to the suburbs even after marriage and kids. There is definitely a shift in mindset.

"Cheap" is a hilarious term when it comes to suburbs. Suburbs were built on heavy subsidies by the federal government in coordination with developers. Also there to this day is a tremendous bias when it comes to urban vs suburban school funding.

Lol

http://www.chron.com/business/article/Southwest-to-offer-nonstop-to-D-C-out-of-Hobby-4496675.php?cmpid=hpfsln

How many of the people in the red townhouses lived in Midtown in 1993? Were those buildings even made at that time?

Valley view is not a dangerous area like greens point. Please stop with the bias.

You're right nobody lives in garland, Richardson, Plano, Addison, Rowlett, etc. And do you know where much of the money that was used to build DART came from? From houston funds that were never used, thanks bob Lanier.

Ok now you're being an extremist. Dallas galleria area you're comparing to greens point? I've spent many weeks working at the Dallas galleria and have walked around the valley view area day and night and never once felt in danger. This is like comparing Brownsville Brooklyn to the woodlands. And I do prefer the Dallas galleria for the reasons I stayed above: it's cleaner, less crowded, and I like the set up.

At least it's built. The attitude of people not willing to ride it is something that has to change. I've been to the other side and I'm not a houston homer I can speak honestly about dallas

Galleria area is closer to hip areas than city centre is. Also that area isn't bad Addison has a lot of restaurants and around the galleria are a lot of offices. The only blights are pawn shops and cash loan offices. But it's not the "too far gone" you claim.

We will see. In some aspects Dallas is much farther along than houston, look at their 80+ miles of rail for example. And I've lived in Houston and worked for significant periods of time in Dallas. I like Dallas galleria better. And basically your last post said "Screw Dallas. Just because they said they're going to build something means it can't happen, because that would make Houston look bad."

It's nicer, cleaner, and less crowded than Houston Galleria. I shake my head at the defensive attitude of Houstonians when Dallas is doing well in anything.

There are plenty of fighter pilots. It's just politics.

He fought in the war but not sure what else about him seems really heroic. Mickey Leland gave his life to helping the poor.

Mickey Leland > George Bush

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Metro-to-add-fare-enforcement-to-rail-line-4473831.php

Terrible

If you live in midtown you know what you're getting into. It's like signing a contract with don king.

Everything in midtown was empty except this place. Kind of hilarious in a way because the places who selectively let people in let everyone in now.

Good luck getting into this place unless you go very early.

The talks about roads here cracks me up. I've been in places with far worse.