Spacecityroller
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OK, I'm going to reiterate my own personal rant from a long time ago :-) It has to do with a puzzlement about the invisible paradise that some Afton Oaks folks have tried to preserve.
Richmond through that area is a bumpy 6-lane thoroughfare with a lot of traffic, cars, buses, trucks.
I would think that repaving the street, landscaping it, and having a nice little electric choo-choo train down the middle would be nicer than how it is now, especially if it reduced the number of buses. plus, one's property value might go up if potential buyers recognized the convenience of just hopping on the train to go to a restaurant or whatever.
I guess I'm just an evil liberal, or something :-)
Your right, but the issue is the rail line that crosses Richmond right there. It would require a grade separation for the light rail, either a bridge or an underpass. I think they could make a bridge look nice.
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Back in 2001 iirc, HCTRA gave them the other half of the wide ROW, enough for rail
Thats backwards Metro bought the row and then sold the portion used for the toll road later. In 2014 they sold even more of the row to the FB toll road authority.
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I found this article.
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The farthest back I can remember, it use to be a Sam's club. Then later turned into a walmart. It had a taco bell and kfc in front of it at the corner.
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I am all for rail. Against BRT in the Uptown area and I would NOT like to see rail along Post Oak either unless it was more like a street car. What I would like to see is a Subway line from Uptown to Downtown that way no one can say anything about how they don't want it going down a certain street or in their neighborhood. It may cost more but look at all of the benefits a subway would bring over a light rial line.
No interaction between rail with cars or pedestrians which means no car/train wrecks no stopping of traffic and no humans getting hit by trains.
Everyone will have to pay and there will be no confusion on if your pass is still good or not.
People will be protected from the heat, rain, etc within the subway stations.
I agree, if richmond and uptown never get built then go full bore a subway from like Voss & Westheimer to DT with stops at chimneyrock, galleria, weslayan. Then curves NE with a stop at Shepard and Grey, then w dallas & waugh and then allen pkwy and montrose then memorial and houston finally in DT at Capital & Main. 9 miles about
I would guess 450mil/mile so 4.05 billion. Slightly lower construction cost in Hou.
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Saw this new drone flyover. Looks sharp.
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Awesome, thanks so much!
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Its a for profit venture so the market or a study of the market will decide weather or not its worth the extra expense. I'm sure they will study every possible way they can make a profit on the HSR line.
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I applaud your thinking out of the traditional. However, why put a stop near the airport? The HSR will run between Dallas and Houston. Both cities have major airports. How many people will take a high speed train from one city to the other in order to get to the airport? And for that few people, why can't they take a bus from the CBD to the airport? Remember, that stop up on the Hardy Toll Road will add 15-20 minutes to a 90 minute trip. That is 15-20% longer, just for the one or two people who might want to go to the airport.
Not worth it. Not even close. Let them take a bus from the CBD. As for light rail to IAH, when commuter rail goes to Kingwood, it can stop at IAH on the way. Until then, take the 102.
Your right. But they could add a 3rd track at each of those stations and have a local airport run with a smaller train set. The headways are 30 min after all. Heck add another stop near the Woodlands and erect a giant parking garage with another station with 3 sets of tracks there also for a local commuter/airport run. That sounds like alot of people would use that.
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IAH is a long way from the CBD. This group is planning HSR from DFW to Houston.
Here is a link to the recent story about the group (TexasCentralHSR). This group stated they plan on mainly using existing freight line ROW. And they have private financing, not government financing. My guess is it will be elevated within the major population centers.
The reason why I bring this up here is why not have the Houston terminus for this HSR line be at the burnett transit center and have a stop near IAH with shuttle busses between that stop and the airport. Here is an illustration showing what I mean.
How does that sound? The red line I drew was along existing freight ROW and the section within 610 is also along the portion of land they plan on using to extend the Hardy Toll Road into downtown.
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Ted Poe said that the money is allocated for transportation. I have no doubt that this money will be spent for some transportation project. It won't be saved, used to pay down the debt, or just cut. So the question is do we take the money that they have allocated for this project, or do we not and it be sent to a transportation project in another city/state.
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I for one hope that if they do secure funding for the University Line, they should at least have the decency to do some grade separation. Given how dense and populated this area is compared to the other lines, we really need to elevate it.
I agree, they should either have the rail go under or over Shepard and Greenbriar. Maybe similar to what they have in the medcenter intersections of Main/Holcomb and Holcomb/Fannin.
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Are they building a staircase/elevator at the elevated station?
Would have been pretty cool had the entire length been elevated.
Here is a pic they posted on http://www.gometrorail.org/go/doc/2491/1333895/North-Line-Construction-Photos
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This is the most cost efficient route. I like the idea of submerging the line once it gets near Hobby.
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http://www.chron.com/default/article/Editorial-Why-is-one-man-blocking-Houston-s-2027820.php
As a result of this week's congressional action, Houston received nothing for environmental impact studies on congested corridors that will qualify the region for other transportation funding down the road; nothing for added transportation and emergency management functions for the TranStar system that was so useful during recent flooding; and nothing for a bus rapid transit project along the West Loop/Post Oak Corridor that was to have linked to other mobility improvements in adjacent busy corridors.
Instead, pending approval in the Senate, Houston will get up to $6 million out of a requested $50 million to pay for design and construction of Katy Freeway improvements -- but nothing for any effort to provide direct transit access on this vital but choked artery. And Houston will get $10.1 million to build a Barker-Cypress Park & Ride on U.S. 290.
By contrast, Dallas will get $70 million for its transit projects.
I found this tidbit. I think the Tom Delay federal funding block for Houston light rail at the time is what caused the money to go to Dallas or Dallas and Houston should have both been funded, either way it was not funded at that time.
This may be what people are talking about. It wasn't a lot of money but was still a successful way of delaying the effort to become eligible for more funding.
I'll look further, its friday and nothing else planned anyway
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Here's an article where it seems like funds went to San Fran instead of Houston in the last minute.
http://www.chron.com/default/article/Rail-backers-question-whether-DeLay-Culberson-1942458.php
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, offered a rider to the Senate version of the appropriations bill that would have forced the FTA to accept the Metropolitan Transit Authority's nontraditional financing proposal. House staff members said they inadvertently inserted similar language in the House version, but it was deleted during frenzied conference-committee negotiations days before Thanksgiving. A similar rider for a San Francisco light rail project was not deleted and is now law.
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Culberson and DeLay had the power to thwart federal funding for Houston rail, while directing federal transit funds to other cities such as Dallas. Now Culberson says he hasn't the influence to get Houston the help it needs and deserves. The extensive damage he and DeLay have done to Houston's interests is clear.
I'll look to see if i can find a better article with a more clear picture of what actually happened.
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I found this article regarding an earlier proposal for lightrail in Houston during the time when Kathy Whitmire was mayor. The mayor before Bob Lanier. I don't know what part this plays. I'll look further.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/18/us/rail-system-plan-backed-by-houston-voters.html
But, this vote seems like the moment that the 25% of the 1cent that was to go to transit was given over to the local governments for road improvements for 13 years.
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I find it very relevant. Please stop trying to speak for everyone.
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Found these images of the Hughes Underpass.
More images in this pdf.
I was wondering what it would look like. I wonder when they will start excavation.
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I found this commercial on youtube.
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METRORail Green Line
in Transit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhsMHwVsfNE
Someone did a video of the purple line.