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  1. jackie21love
    It would be cool, but i guess the train will be no more than 50 mph in urban area though.
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    Uptown will surely more fun for college students. So bad the University line and uptown lines cannot being built. Houston needs to get more density to make people realize the importance of public transportation like light rail and subway.
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    when i-45 is rerouted then it will not be a problem. Wish it could be done in 20 years. I do like these developments. Developers didn't say too much but get work progress fast and steady. How many projects we discussed a lot but never seen a truck came to site?
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    Oh no... please do not top out... it should go all the way high high high up...
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    You mean the parking garage behind it?
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    Who owns the land now?
  7. jackie21love
    it is an good angle to make people think those two buildings are one.
  8. jackie21love
    Maybe, but all the cities I visited around the world with elevated transit, I don't think any of those have a good looking…
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    There will be a pocket park…
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    Things will change at the time they finish the whole project,at least 10 years I suppose. The Pierce will not be removed till they finished the new highway. This will surely be a stimulus to areas close to the Pierce. And, you can call the Att also has its "characters" lol.
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    The garage at Methodist outpatient center is a good example
  12. jackie21love
    I like it lol.
  13. jackie21love
    I don't know the exact number, but I guess should be 3 hours longer than dubai? May Be a little shorter than New York to Singapore? Again, if it is true I believe it is NOT carried by United…
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    It is a blessing if they could finish it within 10 years…
  15. jackie21love
    the 3-story apartments looks so cheap...
  16. jackie21love
    Good point.
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    I agree High Speed Maglev is way too much expensive. I think currently the only operating High Speed Maglev is a 20 miles airport connector in Shanghai. Many new proposals have been made in the past decade but the huge cost is surely a big issue, especially a line connecting two cities. If we could have it by any chance I think the cost should be lower considering the easy construction in the corridor...
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    From city growth perspective, you have to built new airport far away from city center, just like London, Paris, Moscow, Taipei, Kuala Lumper and Shanghai, or you are lucky enough to have an island for it, like Seoul and Hong Kong. Ideally, a rail connecting Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston with a stop at IAH and DFW will be so great (just like Frankfurt), but that will never come true. Let's forget about the new airport which will not come realistic in at least 50 years. Even if government have enough money to do it, I'd rather they spend it to improve local road conditions in the loop, which is more important than my Houston pride.
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    The first thought come to me is we need another boom to fill all these parking lots!
  20. jackie21love
    Well if you say IAH now could still handle flights well then I have no problem with that. But if you travel from Amsterdam, Dubai, and Beijing to Houston you will surely feel shame of it. Terminal E is good, but all other terminals are not even close to "modern". I said we deserve a new airport not because IAH is not large enough to handle flight, but because we deserve something better. I know the terminal D plan and I should not use the word renovation. I meant to say they have to build a new terminal in the same place where now Terminal D stands at, and at the same time you cannot completely shut off the terminal. This makes the project long and complicated. IAH's footprint is bad for sure. parallel concourses and satellite piers have proved their efficiency in lots of newly built airport around the world.
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    That is because we don't have enough money to build a new airport or build a new terminal in another place (which we should do). When you need more space for international flight but not enough fund, you have to do the renovation, which will last longer time. Again, the footprint design of IAH is really bad.
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    We spent too much tax money on arguing what should be spent on. Those strongly oppose rails just like people without kids saying no, use tax for school is a waste of money, and people never take flights saying no, you should not spend my tax on airport improvement... The thing is as long as government spend money on something not related to their life, they will object. And they will never accept new stuff not familiar to them. They will say, yes i know HSR does a good job in Japan, Europe and China, but we are in the US, we don't need it! Those people are just so reluctant to do any changes in life. In Houston we have a world record of the widest freeway (26 lanes in belt 8 and I-10 intersection, counting HOV, changing ramp, and frontage road), but it is still like a parking lot every workday 5pm. We used to be very proud of Interstate Highway System, but decades passed, it is no longer a good system comparing to highways in China and Europe, not to mention small countries like Japan.
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    Exactly. United receives billions from Federal to keep servicing small airports. It is not rare that you take a flight with less passengers than staffs. I used to take a regional jet from Cleveland to Toronto in early morning with only 2 passengers filling the 50 seats regional jet. (I think CLE and YYZ are not "small" airports anyway)
  24. jackie21love
    Great. This is a "truly" international destination to be proud of, comparing new routes to cities in Mexico have been served by United already, and seasonally chartered route to the Bahamas (probably we will not see it the next year).
  25. jackie21love
    Hey nerd, how many decimal places are you caring about?
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