WesternGulf

A centralized city is one thing, but when you hear statements like this from cities that are known for their edge cities and decentralization, but think they can comment because their city is smaller than Houston in land area, it gets annoying. When in Miami, it is a given to go way outside those 36 square miles for some people's basic "needs". Sometimes even in dense centralized San Francisco's 50 square miles.

Does large city limits necessarily mean bad sprawl? I get a laugh when I hear people talk about how this city is too spread out based on the sole fact that the city is around 600 square miles. I would hear things like, "Houston is too large of a city for me to live in. It's 600 square miles for crying out loud." So what? Like someone cannot be confined to say 100 square miles of Houston if they wanted to just like someone can live their life confined to Atlanta's entire 130 square miles. Just because of piece of land 25 miles away from the CBD has Houston branded to it, should not mean anything.

Yes! The coolest tree in the history of the world!

I am saving my pennies and nickels (and Benjamins) to someday plant one of these in front of my bungalow.

I really love those too. Especially in front of an old brick bungalow with a red terracotta roof. There are a few in my signature that I like. Some of the photos are private, but I sometimes purposely go around the city photographing these trees in front of cool structures or homes or tree lined streets. The esplanades or medians in Western Third Ward have plenty of them also.

IMO, without them in this pic, it would be a boring picture.

Haha. You dealing with country folk if you hear soda water.

The Backyard

Thoughts on the new Galveston Causeway?

I really think they blew it.

You can't even see the bay unless you are in a SUV or truck.

I have to agree.

Are you talking about northbound or southbound? Last time I went to the island, I do not know if I were paying attention, but these views were not as noticeable for some reason.

For the most part, that is not true. Our problem is getting rail and cleaning up that piece of ____ IH-45 North. Once we accomplish that, everything should be good.

That's less than the tip of the iceberg.

Looks like it will go well with the rest of downtown.

I actually tried Mission for the first time a few weeks ago. Yeah it's edible but nothing I missed. IMHO, it is just somewhere people go to in order to stay away from the chain that is Chipotle, but honestly I can eat either one. Having two Chipotle's on the rail line is a little too convenient for me.

THanks for the inpout coog but I will wait for the explanation of how the rail being on a street other than Richmond holds back or cripples the entire city. We both know that just because the rail isn't on Richmond Houston won't be "crippled" or "held back".

Are you only reading what you want to hear? People have gave plenty of explanations since you registerd how placing rail on Westpark could cripple future expansions of light rail in this city.

Placing the rail on Westpark does not put this line at its full potential. When people are inconvenienced, especially dealing with public transportation, they are going to look for an alternative which is going to be their cars or whatever they used before, leaving the University rail line to fail. Not a good sign when trying to receive funding for future rail lines. Please stop being blind to how many people live, work and play in the vicinity of Richmond Avenue.

Wow. If that list of tenants is true, what happened with the soft goods retail? We have enough of the lunch crowd stuff in DT.

There are some pretty cool ones on North and South MacGregor south of University of Houston.

No we won't. The insanity statute in Texas is an almost impossible burden to meet. It is rare that the facts of a case merit even putting on that defense, much less having a jury act on it.

Now, if you are saying that conditions are ripe for a lot of people to go insane and kill their kids in the future, that's another issue.

Yeah but how many times have we heard this on this news recently from families? It's almost predictable.

I am sure we will see a lot of these cases in the future as far as insanity.

I'm glad people brought this thread back up. It's already sad for a democrat to live in Texas, but with so many people running, I believe Bell does not have a chance. Perry is a disappointment. I am sure more people than usual on both sides can agree, but there are still too many blind voters in this state and the many that simply do not vote for the incumbent not to win. It may sound harsh but contrary to popular belief, I believe the Kinky supporters deep down know he's a waste of a vote. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Thanks so much sevfiv for the link!

Ditto

I wonder how the crime of the Inner Loop, west of Downtown, compares to the far southwest areas and suburbs these days.

Done

Well looking at Ziegler Cooper's other projects they do get things done.

This project will never happen.

PRINT IT.

Just in case it does.

Courtesy of mbgriffith1 at SSP.

Yeah and that Ben & Jerry's at the Rice opened yesterday. Obvious probably to the Downtownn employees on HAIF who saw the long lline for free ice cream on Texas Avenue.

Does anyone know if the grass tracks in the medians were an option considered by METRO?