Slick Vik

That too. But the park in the middle of the freeway was a big wtf for me. Totally illogical. Destroying third ward is sad but you know what Kanye said about George bush. People on the lower end of the socioeconomic scale have zero political say.

http://swamplot.com/wacky-txdot-i-45-redo-renderings-now-available-in-mind-boggling-video-format/2015-05-01/?ic_source=icma Definitely helps gain some understanding on the project. The one thing I think is an epic fail is the park on 45 between 10 and 610. A park between freeway lanes seems very unhealthy from a respiratory perspective.

I respect the research and time you put into this, as well as your knowledge of the freeway system. That being said, this is like an elder traffic engineer's wet dream. More lanes, more exits, more freeway access. That's already proven to not be a solution as the 10 extension and the city of Los Angeles has proven. Mobility is not just about driving your car wherever you need to go. And acquiring huge tracts of right of way over and over again is not a solution either. This model would've been great 40+ years ago, but we have to think of broader solutions and what's best for the city also. The removal of the pierce elevated is a seismic shift in philosophy if it actually happens, and shows a new generation of thinkers is actually being heard. That will help improve the city and sends a message about the future of Houston. I like it.

Culberson-esque move

Geez. Highway expansion is like religion in Texas.

The FBI basically assisting people to commit crimes only to arrest them has been going on for a long time. Here is a great example http://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/471/the-convert

The interstate program was never meant to barrel through cities, Eisenhower himself never wanted that. The idea was to have loops like 610 to avoid the center. But local politics from congressmen bastardized the original plan.

The monorail is okay. I've taken it from mgm and boy's. The entrances are a little tricky to get to. It really needs to go to the airport. I believe it's private so expansion maybe never will happen, it's been discussed for years. That being said you shouldn't get so emotional when I say something about Houston. As if you are its chivalrous defender. It's good to compare to other cities to see what Houston could become if the correct infrastructure investments were made.

No. Split it with 3 other people so not a big loss. Wish I bet on it though. Positive is I watched it from a 20th floor condo in downtown Chicago while eating Lou malnati's deep dish pizza. And the Spurs/clippers game was great. But the fight was underwhelming.

The biggest boxing match in 44 years. That's why.

In Chicago right now. Impressive metro system and downtown here too, ground floor retail everywhere. Houston is 50-100 years behind.

Just 2 days away

It's been a while, December 2012 was the last time. Downtown Bryan actually had some charm to it though.

College station is not even a town. It's a village with a couple of roads and some tracks.

You can now go back to your life in college station. And I can stop wasting time arguing with a country bumpkin about how fortunate I am to travel like I do. I'll be in Chicago this weekend do you need evidence of that also? What a joke.

And here's my view of the Sikh day parade

And here's a view from my seat at Madison square garden Saturday Here are cherry blossoms from the Brooklyn botanical garden

And since you asked I just went outside and took a pic for you

Lunch today from 43rd and 7th

Dinner last night from the truck that's in the picture I just sent

I'm at the office so I put up the last picture I took. Do you need a current one as well? Pictures of what I ate for lunch and dinner? You can have those as well.

Tear it down

Corner of 29th and Broadway. C town is on the right the bright colored building.

For the amount of people that live there already where would the additional supply come from? If it was that bad the population would've dropped like say Detroit.

Astoria isn't run down.