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  1. cloud713
    Nice! I didn't think this was supposed to start until like September or something
  2. cloud713
    Why wouldn't the i10 line hit the northwest TC/ uptown line? And I'd argue that with the i10 line, it would hit memorial city, city center, the energy corridor, ect.. All while tying into the existing p&r system. The ROW is already there (one of the most expensive parts of building new rail), and some of the corridors you chose are highlighted for future commuter rail, so there would be no room to put light rail down the Washington ave/Hempstead rail line corridor.
  3. cloud713
    You can google search Metro light rail map/plans and one of the pictures shows a phase 3 with a couple additional lines/extensions, and one goes from the dead end of the east end/southeast lines by the theater district, over to i10 and out towards katy
  4. cloud713
    That Katy line was planned to go down the middle lanes of the Katy tollway on I-10, not along all those other routes..
  5. cloud713
    oh wow, the project is a lot bigger than i realized.
  6. cloud713
    shouldnt this go in the Coastal Prairies subforum, not the Sugar Land/southwest subforum?
  7. cloud713
    the landscaping is nice (havent seen it in person, just saying, the idea..), but that skinny strip of land seems like it would be very underutilized as a part of the park, since its a small plot, on the other side of Fannin, and has two main thru streets on either side.. maybe the park will one day sell it off to a developer? wishful thinking.. heh
  8. cloud713
    Looks like they removed another floor between Wednesday and Friday (when I took this photo)
  9. cloud713
    Damn.. That sucks. Ah well, thanks for the info.
  10. cloud713
    Looks like they are halfway through setting up to pour the slab for the 30th floor.. Just about 3/4th the way there!
  11. cloud713
    That should be RDs chateau 10. Thanks for the updates!
  12. cloud713
    Let's not forget the Almeda Road-Crawford corridor This.. The two Mosaics, the Spires, the new development planned next to the spires, the parklane, and the new tower at hermann place are all a good start to bypassing those 2 areas..
  13. cloud713
    Dammit triton. I've been by 3 times and it's been closed every time
  14. cloud713
    wait, so according to this the TMC is now larger than downtown Houston? http://www.texasmedicalcenter.org/media/files/page/SqFtCityComparisonFall2011.pdf
  15. cloud713
    Anyone going to the meeting? I think it's coming up next week..?
  16. cloud713
    Haha, notice I mentioned moving the prison is key. And yeah, didn't see any mention of it. Maybe the next mayor will have a vision to redevelop that area.. Why have a prison in the middle of a city where land prices are so high? Might as well be a high-rise prison.. Heh. Probably be harder to escape from too.
  17. cloud713
    Yeah it's possible at the rate weve been seeing announcements over the last few months that we will hit 5,000 well before the June(?) 2016 cut off.. These are insanely exciting times IMO.. We all want downtown to have that residential base to sustain the bars/restaurants/retail, and it's finally happening! Edit. The bms market square tower is huge! Didn't realize it had that many more units than Hines market square tower. So 11 projects.. This isn't counting the apartment building just south of SkyHouse is it?
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    I can see it too if we can relocate the prison.. (Are there any plans for that?) but with so many other mixed use developments happening across town and large swaths of land like Hardy yards, KGB, and the astroworld site sitting vacant while seemingly prime for development, I don't see the canal area turning into an instant hit unless the city really got behind it with incentives and stuff like they are doing for the residential and retail districts/programs.. Which is entirely possible. I hope that area somewhat resembles the 2003 master plan eventually, but I don't see it happening for a decade or so.
  19. cloud713
    YESSSS!!! i was hoping for 5,000. that will TRIPLE the number units that were originally in downtown. i would think the population will be closer to 15,000 than 10,000 if they max out the cap space. what page was that on, urb?
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    that was superneighborhood 22s proposal/plan(?) back in 2010 for the area between i10/Washington to the west, and i45 to the east. trench the whole section of tracks, and add two more tracks in the process for commuter/heavy rail. i wish that would happen.. they also had sketches for a streetcar down Washington into downtown, to the baseball field, and one going south into Montrose, and a potential light rail extension of the east end/southeast line in downtown, west down Memorial Dr, being tunneled through Memorial Park.. a bunch of awesome stuff.
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    im gonna grab some popcorn and let livincinco and editor battle this one out.. you both clearly seem more informed on rail than the rest of us. heh. both very great points! i would totally be down for sharing freight tracks, as it makes my commuter rail vision much easier to implement, but livincinco has a point. when the panama expansion is complete Houston is supposed to have even more freight traffic flowing through the port, and thus regional rail lines (and highways, for the people who dont believe in alternate modes of transit).. true, but i just dont see enough people commuting between Houston-b/cs, and Houston-Beaumont to justify it, unless we could completely use freight tracks to minimize costs, and even then i would only run lines to b/cs on the weekends, and have no idea when beaumont would ever need rail transport? i would much rather have that line connect into (or be) the southwest flyer (with an occasional beaumont stop) or w/e that passenger rail line is coming in from New Orleans, that continues on west.. why couldnt you take rail from cypress to Sugar Land if there were a westside express route like through the rail ROW half a mile east of 610, that connects 90A to the Hempstead rail line? but i see your point, its not optimal.. lol.. trails-to-rails.. didnt see that coming. it sounds like those 25 intersections should of been built as over/underpasses long ago.. not sure why thats just now happening in a region as busy as Chicago. if Chicago can figure out a way to make room to separate/add additional tracks in its dense core, surely Houston could figure out a way to add more rail along the existing corridors?
  22. cloud713
    so that is the final design of the first residential tower? i was afraid it would be that curved beige tower.. this one is much nicer looking IMO.
  23. cloud713
    i think its saying construction start beginning of 2015. notice the solid black lines? i think those are the year cut off points.. good news though, looking forward to another crane in the sky next year!
  24. cloud713
    I don't see mass transit as a way of relieving traffic, I just see it as an alternate mode of travel that will be quicker than sitting in traffic on the highway.. Highways should continue to be reworked as long as possible. But widening of roads can't go on forever.
  25. cloud713
    Yeah pretty much that. And not extending the 288 commuter rail down to highway 6. I don't see the ridership being high enough between b/CS, Beaumont and Houston for that line to make sense.. Do that many people really commute or travel between those cities?
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