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  1. wilcal
    Progress on Austin St in downtown:
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    Pretty sure that could be HAIF's motto at this point.
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    13 year study found that painted (non-separated bike lanes do nothing. Sharrows are actually more dangerous. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says/
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    If only it extended down to Hermann Park as well It'll just be "community bikeway" south of HCC with painted sharrows and wayfinding signs.
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    Looks great! Bring on the EaDo residents. Just a block from the Eadog Park and two blocks from 8th Wonder and then all sorts of other stuff 4-6 blocks away. Love seeing more infill in this area.
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    Late to this thread as well, but 63k sq ft is great! Anyone want to venture a guess when this will open? Surely by the Thanksgiving/holiday season push.
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    It looks pretty nice! Not bad at all.
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    Drove down Post Oak this morning and it really looked great. Saw about a dozen different cyclists utilizing the BRT lane as a bike lane, too.
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    jfc, just came across my twitter feed Edit: Full details now https://abc13.com/man-shot-killed-after-fight-between-groups-inside-galleria/6181556/
  10. wilcal
    Some extra help for distracted drivers:
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    This is the arcgis map of their data btw: https://linkhouston.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=15a9064f69e242809dcbb50cee11d3dd
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    I actually asked about them a little about this in regards to the projects that Houston city council approved recently. They said that HHA uses some transportation data, but it's not nearly this granular. Part of the reason they did this study was to develop tools to provide to people like HHA and other organizations to help make smarter investments.
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    Even if we have the most, it doesn't mean that there is enough or that it's distributed evenly. I would encourage all of you to read the new Affordable Housing and Sustainable Transportation report that was published by LINK Houston and the Kinder Institute last week. https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2020/05/05/affordable-housing-and-sustainable-transportation-houston Full report is on this site: https://kinder.rice.edu/research/where-affordable-housing-and-transportation-meet-houston TLDR is that large swathes of census blocks across the city do not have adequate access to affordable housing. Most of the East End actually does.
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    Clayton Homes opened in 1952! So that's quite a while before 59 was built. Here's another photo that looks north.
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    Saw this cool photo of the original Elysian Viaduct. This photo is from around 1960.
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    If there was a market to sell them, then they would be sold. It's about as simple as that. There's a reason why empty lots in some neighborhoods sell for completed townhomes. Density is not a bad thing, especially with the potential for easy light rail expansion. Also, there are way more standalone traditional houses in this area than townhome neighborhoods.
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    There are some wayfinding improvements being made as part of the new bike lanes. There is a sign on the White Oak/MKT split, although I'll admit it's not great.
  18. wilcal
    What type of "actual housing" were you anticipating on a 2500 sq ft lot that isn't a townhome? Also, multifamily and townhomes are actual housing.
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    Haven't seen in mentioned, but they've pushed testing back until at least July I believe. Who knows when it'll open
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    I'm a big fan of doing the drop off zones. As curb space becomes more limited, commercial zones like this are vital. Nice to see they are sticking with it.
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    Domino's opened yesterday! Stopped by and talked with the manager and they were having some first day pains, but seemed to be somewhat under control. It's a corporate-owned store. They actually have 12 ebikes to use for delivery. He said he was having a hard time actually hiring enough drivers. He took me into the back behind the oven and they have racks for all 12 to hang up and a battery charging station. They are set up to do car deliveries as well, but he said that they were going to try to do all ebike. He said his territory was 59 on the south, 59/288 on the east, Allen parkway on the north, and Taft on the west. Definitely a manageable region for ebikes imho. The Joint had some equipment inside their store front, so they may not be terrible far away.
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    Very attractive. Wish the pricing was online.
  23. wilcal
    Yes, this is! Great to hear they've started. Thanks for reporting in. I'll swing by to take some pics this weekend hopefully. There is pavement repair, two floating bus stops and bike parking on a raised island going on. The bike lane itself will be similar to the one on Gray, so mostly just paint with the concrete parking barriers added on top of the street.
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    City can't evict from TxDOT land which is where a ton of the encampments are (along highways). State won't evict because of fear from lawsuit.
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    I definitely understand how tight the margins are in grocery (grandfather was an exec for HEB for decades and made store managers keep a roll of pennies on their desk to remind them that every penny matters) and that cut-through traffic could make the difference between making it or not, but having unsafe streets in this area is a much larger hindrance to development than having access to groceries. Would Whole Foods not also receive a benefit from the Bagby entrance being closed to the spur and diverting all of the Bagby spur traffic onto Smith? You can go to their Google Maps listing and see how busy the store is on average by time and day of the week, and the 6-7pm slot is their busiest of the day on weekdays, but that's also the time that locals would be shopping. The weekends are still easily their busiest day. Their mid-day numbers, when there is zero cut-through traffic is 75% as good as their peak traffic between 6 and 7. Their 1-2pm traffic is about the same as their 5-6pm traffic. Might they get some people grabbing a juice or breakfast on the way in from Brazos? It's feasible but those people still have the option to do so and drive literally one extra minute to go there.
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