Slick Vik

The bus station would be okay if police would enforce a no loitering policy in the area.

And put them where? Transients are likely to en up on the street

Yes we need to add bike lanes and the university line, those two things would help a lot. If there are alternatives and people still insist on driving oh well deal with the consequences.

Got pretty run-down

In what sense?

Nice picture. I walk by the 99 cent store daily and nobody bothers me though. I think it's more perception than reality

I liked luna pizzeria and little pappasito's

Astroworld definitely wasn't a first class theme park toward the end.

And why is that?

The greyhound terminal is in a great location because it's near the downtown transit center. So if you come to houston you can pretty much get anywhere once you get off the greyhound via bus or rail (on a weekday especially)

Converting HOV lanes to rail would be my first step, extending one or both of the two new lines opening to hobby, adding a line from downtown to nw transit center down memorial or Washington, and extending the north line to greenspoint then iah would be my short term plan.

Amtrak still waits for freight trains, all the time

Weird that one closed it's off the freeway by quite a bit.

It closed due to 290 expansion apparently

Post office or hardy rail yards would be great. Hardy rail yards would give connection to public transit also

I wonder which route they have chosen. The most sensible path would be up 290, 6, and 35. So the probably stops would be Houston, College Station/Bryan, Waco, and Dallas.

No

I think he's talking about greenspoint

I wonder what will happen downtown when cars are emptying out of parking garages

102 is an ok bus because it's so cheap and if you're not in a hurry. Also it's good for airport employees. However I agree that the transfer in downtown is what's terrible that adds another half hour at least.

I wish the airport express bus would've stuck around but it was losing money to due a ban on advertising because of a lawsuit by super shuttle who said metro was infringing on its territorial rights, which makes no sense. But that's the type of uphill battle metro has to fight here.

Also agreed that 45 and many other freeways here are urban wastelands from a birds eye view. 45 south, 59 north, 290, 59 south, they're all terrible. Strip mall after strip mall and motels, it's ugly. But hey that's Houston's commerce right?

Essentially, the piece says that Dallas used old rail ROW to build a relatively cheap, but reasonably extensive, system no one uses, while Houston spent a ton of money building rail on streets, which is used by more people than in Dallas, but doesn't have nearly as much length.

There wasn't a single instance of cheap right of way in the article. I don't think you read it.

It's OK. We know it's the same tired rhetoric that you post at every possible opportunity.

You hate Houston. We get it. Leave.

Katy is not in houston.

Hard to respond if anyone else hasn't read the article

Basically it talks about since the early 80's Dallas put in effort into making a regional rail system while Houston's politicians have done their best to stop anything of the sort from happening.

Actually the transit time for Orlando rail is slower than park and ride. Orlando travel time is 63 minutes to go 31 miles. Park and Ride from Grand Parkway to Downtown is 48 minutes to go 27 miles.

- Apologies for the off-topic

That's the ideal situation. HOV lanes are subject to congestion and random incidents as well more often than you would think.

Detroit is a terrible example to use.

I did and it cleared only have 2 left.

Great I used 6 global and 4 regional this year. Global services make a huge difference.

...that runs once every 150 minutes during midday and not at all after 10pm or on weekends. Not something that makes me the slightest bit envious. Ten bucks says its ridership (free fare period not withstanding) never surpasses the Katy Freeway Park & Rides, currently about 6,500 boardings a day.

Perhaps the most important criterion for pedestrian friendliness is distance between safe places to cross the street. Crossing the street is where people get injured and killed. Think 249 inside the beltway where there have been multiple fatalities in the past year.

We will see; when done it will be 60+ miles. Our park and rides run only once an hour midday and not at all on the weekends. In addition they are subject to speed of the HOV lanes which in some corridors is not nearly as fast as expected.