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    Photo from the KHOU article https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/pedestrian-bridge-catches-fire-along-white-oak-bayou-near-i-10/285-c1fac60b-bbc6-4d4b-b52a-1d3114b54da7
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    Isn't that bridge concrete?
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    Hopefully they will make some sort of high comfort lanes on Leeland or something. A bike bridge over the freeway would be cool there - it looks like there would be room looking at section B-B http://ih45northandmore.com/docs13/05_NHHIP_Seg3_I-69_RollPlot_PH_2-2.pdf
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    Just wait, in 8 months when it opens and the lobby is Paris themed, this thread will seem very prescient
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    There's been success elsewhere in "housing-first" initiatives to help the homeless, but they were small lots with 6 or 7 tiny cabins on it, not a highrise apartment building. Last thing you want to do with extreme poverty is concentrate it that much
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    Yeah the ride between the end of buffalo bayou park and memorial park is not great. 4' sidewalks, uneven pavement. I wonder if a bike path down memorial (or elsewhere) would make sense, or extend how far the buffalo bayou park stretches to meet up with memorial park
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    Roundabout that destroys the Exxon and the bank on the corner Wouldn't solve anything, but would be quite interesting
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    You also don't have to build all the stations when you build the tracks - you can always add infill stations. A quick connection from the Missouri City park and ride could turn it into a real TC - have the local bus routes feed into it, and you can take a 66 mph train to Fannin South (before it has to slow down to normal)
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    Where Am I?

    cspwal replied to hindesky's topic in Off Topic

    The smoke shop on St Emanuel?
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    Also they've had a lane of Scott St blocked for months, and they've started blocking the other lane whenever its the easiest way to unload something
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    It makes it look more like individual townhouses than a large apartment complex; I agree it really improves the facade
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    Sears looks like it’s wearing a hat
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    The townhouses between the bike trail and emancipation often put bins out on Polk - the backhoe in above pictures is actually hiding a bin they put onto the grass to put the armadillos down
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    In my experience, the buffered lanes are wide enough that you can go around the cans without getting into the traffic lanes also recycling has been slow for the past month, so those cans are sitting out longer
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    Armadillos
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    It’s crazy how hard it is to find a wedding spot with a skyline view, so this will be very popular with weddings
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    They've started work on the Leeland bike lane. Looks like it's going from Scott to the Columbia Tap trail (Columbia Tap trail is right behind the sign) Curb work
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    There's a tent at discovery green that's renting out electric scooters. Keep forgetting to take a picture...
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    Because the market sets the parking requirements - home buyers, renters, and commercial tenants will still want parking, just not necessarily as much as the city's requirements
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    What about a giant disco ball hanging over the intersection, similar to the rings over Post Oak?
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    Really you need both a shared garage and good sidewalks to walk from the shared garage to everything around it
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    I still don't trust it - it might just be a parking lot improvement. I won't believe it until I see a banner for 3 months free rent
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    In downtown, east downtown, and the west side of midtown, there's no parking minimums, but I don't know how well garage-less townhouses would sell over there. They would probably sell for less, discouraging developers from making them
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    I suspect the biggest issue is parking. Until recently, the only place that it would even be possible to do that would have been downtown, and downtown already has a lot of vacant retail spots that are more purpose built. East side of midtown could've started having that, but the parking requirements are still in force there, so even a small retail spot would need a bunch of off-street parking, a lot more than the 2 needed for a townhouse. Which brings up the fact that most Houston townhouses are mostly garage on the first floor
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    What about small mid-rise apartment? Or not really the space for it?
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