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  1. mollusk
    More like access for window washers, since they can't run a scaffold or rappel. The Wortham building in American General Center has the same setup.
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    ^^ Of course, the world over all of the major cathedrals, temples, tall viaducts, etc., etc. were built with some sort of plant based staging until ~150 years ago...
  3. mollusk
    Actually, soap and water is better than hand sanitizer - any soap will do. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/home/cleaning-disinfection.html
  4. mollusk
    having trouble figuring out how to comment on that transition in a manner suitable for a family forum...
  5. mollusk
    At least they have truth in labeling down - it sounds demonically inspired. #tastyaleFTW
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    Located away from the curb so as not to splash people waiting for the bus
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    Thus demonstrating why they failed in this market at least twice, if not three times.
  8. mollusk
    Target should do well there. The problem with that Randall's wasn't the location - once upon a time it was busy - but Safeway's insistence on doing just about everything exactly the opposite way from previous management, with the exception of higher prices.
  9. mollusk
    One can only hope that the Katy Freeway BRT won't really end in the middle of the Katy Freeway HOV lane flyover.
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    To the extent we ever got them, they've been reallocated. Of course, these are long lead time projects so it's impossible to snap your fingers and bring them to immediate full fruition.
  12. mollusk
    Smith, two blocks east, will still be an entrance to the spur, now with no cross traffic from Bagby. 💁‍♂️
  13. mollusk
    The buffer is great for planting trees, which calm traffic and make walking or cycling more pleasant (that whole shade thing).
  14. mollusk
    Are you sure that more secret tunnels aren't being built as we speak? How would anyone other than us Mole People know about them?
  15. mollusk
    Milam and Smith provide the lion's share of the traffic going to the Southwest Freeway; Louisiana and Travis have always taken practically all of the northbound traffic. The reality is that Brazos and Bagby don't connect well to downtown. Brazos dies at the south end of Allen Center, and Bagby is a rambling indirect cluster between Pierce and Dallas. Taking it out of the theoretical, the bridge to Brazos has now been closed for months without any noticeable negative effect.
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    Washington DC to NYC is a bit over 200 miles, as is NYC to Boston. Amtrak Acela takes about the same time as driving from Houston to Dallas to make those trips (its average speed is roughly 85 mph WAS - NYC and 66 mph NYC - BOS), yet retains a pretty robust schedule. The business case for an hour and a half for the same distance +/- seems pretty clear.
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    In the "yesterday's news tomorrow" column, Martin Disiere moved into the Neils around ten years ago. Perhaps the announcement was of their renewal. 🤷‍♂️
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    Is it? They kinda taste the same...
  19. mollusk
    If you've seen one side, you've seen all four. It was completely symmetrical, and about as inviting as your average grocery store parking lot.
  20. mollusk
    Me too, Avassos... but I'm still going to miss that round escalator pod (I know, space limitations, ADA, etc., etc.)
  21. mollusk
    Metaphorically, of course
  22. mollusk
    I live within spitting distance of Triton, and have attended a bunch of the meetings over a very long time as well. Some very small changes on the structural side (TxDOT's responsibility) can make a huge difference to the final result - we're not talking about placing the ferns here. There are a bunch of such issues in the segment between 610 and 10, and in particular between Cavalcade and White Oak/Quitman.
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    If you go a little to the left of what's visible in this picture, you would see another building behind this one, separated by a driveway with parked cars on each side. IDK if it's the clientele or what, but navigating HV's parking lots on foot takes Frogger to a new level.
  24. mollusk
    Feh... who needs a main library anyway?
  25. mollusk
    Funny - they're substituting in white and grey just as brown is starting to return (as breathlessly revealed by the fishwrap the Chron yesterday).
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