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    Memorial City North At I-10 & Gessner Rd.

    in Going Up!

    Posted

    As I stated last year, MetroNational has big plans for this site. A twin tower of the Memorial Hermann Tower was in the works but that may have been cancelled with the oil slide (contrary to popular belief, the tower is mainly office, not medical).

     

    I refuse to believe that crown is not one large stadium seating operating room where people are secretly turned into bionic super beings a-la- the million dollar man.

     

    [/7 year old imagination] 

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    The Boulevard Project

    in Transit

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    For anyone interested in the BRT lanes veing installed alobg Post Oak Blvd... the recent news is very positive... so excited to see this moving forward... the Attorney General basically washed his hands on the issue... I wonder how pissed off those who are against the BRT lanes are now? Lol

    Uptown-houston.com

     

    Is there an article that discusses this?

    University Debates: Sports, Fundings, And Developments

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Following the California system would be more like combining the A&M and Texas systems into one, and moving Texas Tech and UH, etc back into the State University system.  You wouldnt even have to mess with the PUF or HEF.

     

    More than likely it would consist of A&M's main campus w/ the Galveston extension along with Tech in Lubbock and UH all joining the UT system.

     

    There would then probably be some horse trading with the loss of schools like UT Permian basin and/or UT Arlington and/or UT Tyler.

     

    Then the separate Medical schools would be combined w/ an institution or something....

     

    Southwestern w/ UT Dallas, UTMB with A&M College Station+Galveston and UT Houston + MD Anderson with UH.

     

    Or something like that. IDK.

     

    Everyone else would then be combined like Texas State, Sam Houston, SFA, North Texas, UH Victoria, UH Sugar Land, Sul Ross St., etc, etc.

     

    ANDDDDDD then all community colleges would be rolled in together like San Jac, Lone Star, ACC, HCC, etc to form the 3rd tier.

     

    Then you'd be right that the PUF would go squarely to the UT system.

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    Buffalo Bayou Master Plan

    in Going Up!

    Posted

    This is a classic "debottlenecking" project / issue.

     

    We've beautified the Bayou west of downtown.... now we've exposed the downtown section (next bottleneck) for what it is.... piss poor. [pun intended]

     

    What's left to do? Beautify the downtown section. Easy.

     

    In actuality though, this will be incredibly difficult. The street level bridges over the bayou are god awful. It would take a major city effort ($$$$) to right this wrong.

     

    Certain streets that span the bayou need to be eliminated altogether and others altered significantly. The main culprit is the monstrosity around the Smith / Congress Ave / Franklin / Louisiana cluster f*&$*.

     

    Congress Ave. needs to stop at Smith... actually it would be better to stop at Louisiana.

     

    Franklin street on the north of the bayou needs to be realigned / pull back from the bayou. I say make it a one way (headed east) rd that then ties into commerce. Eliminate the section of Washington that is only there for the parking lot.

     

    Have Smith and Louisiana span over Franklin / Commerce and then tie into the 45 or 10 connectors. I can[t remember what connects what.

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    The Grid: Mixed-Use Development In Stafford

    in Going Up!

    Posted

    "We're going to take the great things about City Centre and improve them...with parking" 

     

    Yeah that's what everyone talks about at the Double C....the parking. 

     

    I've never had an issue with parking at either Town center or City Centre.

     

    Yes I can't park in front of the J Crew, but there's always parking in the parking garage.

     

    I'm starting to get skeptical now that I'm hearing 'parking' as a selling pt.

     

    You know what has EVEN more / better parking?!..... the Walmart that'll be across the street..... the iconic Stafford Walmart.

     

    Whatever the parking situation is at the former TI headquarters, you better lock your car and leave nothing in view. There will be theft. Oh yes. There will be theft.

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    New Elevated Train Concept

    in Transit

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    Structure is impossibly lightweight. Unless this was designed for a new city on the moon. Maybe the cars are made of paper? Gravity spoils everything!

     

    What is this?.... A mass transit system for ANTS!

     

    It needs to be at least .. 3 times as big!

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    The Boulevard Project

    in Transit

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    I've always thought a heavy rail subway under Westheimer from like Beltway 8 all the way into downtown would get great ridership. 

     

    If I had a somewhat unlimited check book I'd do:

     

    Elevated light rail west of S. Rice st (at grade in certain spots if possible / if there are long stretches without lights). Keep it in the median as there is plenty of street capacity for cars.

     

    Underground light rail east of Sage......something like Boston's system.

     

    That would save "some" $. But we're talking bazillions of dollars here.

     

    Pipe dreams.....

     

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    West Houston Monorail

    in Traffic and Transportation

    Posted

    I am a unique person. Not only was I born near Houston, I grew up there and except for stretches where I lived near Chicago and New York, I lived, went to school and worked in Houston. I am now retired and live in Alabama to be near my children. Good luck with your efforts to get monorail in Houston. But keep in mind that you have a long way to go and history does not help you. Back in 1956, when I was nine and my brother was four, they tried to get those pesky Houston residents to give up their cars and commute by monorail. To give Houstonians a taste of what it may be like, they built and operated a short monorail line in the area where the Astrodome and Reliant Field are now located. You could ride it and it was free. My brother and I were so excited -- we were going to have Disneyland right at home. But as we were driving home, my parents were talking about whether they would support the upcoming bond election to finance building a real working  monorail to provide public mass transit throughout the city. My mother thought it was a good idea. However, my Dad said, "But Ida, they will raise our property taxes to pay back the bonds and they will also charge us to use it. We already pay a gasoline tax to build and maintain this big system of freeways they are planning to build. They say that the freeway system will allow me to drive to work in 15 minutes and I won't have to pay for anything but the gas for the car." Gasoline at that time averaged about 29 cents a gallon. We lived about 15 miles from downtown Houston --  in Sharpstown; being one of the first to buy a home there. You know the rest of the story. By the time the Southwest Freeway was completed, it took the average commuter about 1.5 to 2 hours to drive to downtown Houston from the suburbs.. It has only gotten worse. Anyway, after my brother and i grew up and moved away, my parents moved closer to town because my Dad said that he was tired of fighting traffic for up to four hours a day to get to and from work. 

     

    I have to say, I thought this post was going to go in a completely different direction. Maybe I've become very HAIF jaded. IDK.

    However, I really enjoyed your perspective / story. More posting please!

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    University of Houston Campus Developments

    in Going Up!

    Posted

    I feel like these are apples and oranges. This sounds more like private sector business oriented/ start up. The UT one sounds like purely research.  

     

    All kidding aside from my earlier post, I don't think anyone (that's even including the UT brass really) know what the UT campus is going to be.

     

    I do have a feeling they are both going to attempt to tap into the whole public-private-research-business-incubator-academic nebulousness (word?).

     

    That and TMC3. All three of which will now have to fight harder to claim a stake in certain fields.

     

    I for one think that the competition and the lofty goals of all three would be a huge boon for Houston.... and the timing can't come soon enough with oil swirling the proverbial toilet bowl right now.

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    University Debates: Sports, Fundings, And Developments

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    I have said it before on this forum someplace but will say it again, my old history professor at U of H, Dr. Stanley Siegel once told the class, "The University of Texas and Texas A&M get 1/2 the budget...the other 17 schools share the other half...the University of Texas has not one but three Gutenberg Bibles."

     

    That quote stuck with me.

     

    Not to split hairs here, but UT doesn't own '3' Gutenberg Bibles. It owns 2 volumes of 1 Bible as the complete Gutenberg Christian bible takes up two volumes / books.

     

    They are actually on display at the Harry Ransom Center on the UT campus along with the 1st photograph ever taken!

     

    --The more you know......

    Extension Of San Jacinto St.

    in Traffic and Transportation

    Posted · Edited by DNAguy

    Maybe the delay has something to do with the North Houston Highway Improvement Project. Perhaps they have to redesign the extension to accommodate future access to the new feeder roads from N. San Jacinto while also making sure the highway will be built high enough to clear the N. San Jacinto overpass over Hardy Yards.

     

    I'd like to think it's b/c of this.

     

    I am, however, pessimistic. I really think, in true Houston fashion, that they just ran out of $ and didn't plan for a contingency.

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