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    Finally! A render!
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    Unless traffic is horrible, the speed along Pierce is usually pretty good - it's the rest of 45 in downtown that is almost always at a standstill
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    I like how they kept the design of the top when they grew another floor
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    Some more pictures of Dallas street, this time during the day http://swamplot.com/dallas-st-redo-winds-down-before-final-four-clocks-start-running/2016-03-31/
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    See the answer was right there - the Roomba should be fetching the dry cleaning and hanging it back in the closet
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    I found an interchange underground in Brisbane, Australia https://www.google.com/maps/place/Brisbane+QLD,+Australia/@-27.4164611,153.0370008,16.99z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x6b91579aac93d233:0x402a35af3deaf40 That freeway seems to be a pretty long run of tunnel, and this was the only interchange where there were a lot of ramps tunneling up. But they still go to the surface. Most of the google results were for doing this in Cities Skylines, where it is extraordinarily expensive, but of course you don't have to face elections in that game so spending a bunch of money on a freeway is easy
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    And then basement parking garages can exit directly onto the freeway, and won't almost hit so many pedestrians on the sidewalk of Travis! Are there any underground freeway exchanges? I know there are freeways in tunnels, but I'm wondering about like a 4 level stack underground
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    New completely unfeasible idea - double decker freeway completely depressed below grade in the current location of 59
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    Yeah just edited my post I didn't read the whole section on SW freeway before posting My bad
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    I hate to disagree with you Houston19514, but it seems that a good strech of it was originally built depressed I found this photo in Houston's Freeways, by Erik Slotbom, page 172 The two constructed overpasses appear to be Shepherd and Greenbriar; the one under construction is Kirby. You can see the westpark train line, and the Coke bottling plant. I was surprised - I thought it had been elevated before too Edit: After reading ahead a few more pages, the highway was originally elevated over Montrose and the replacement project depressed it below Montrose.
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    http://www.khou.com/money/business/construction-company-fined-for-downtown-scaffolding-collapse/112165058
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    1711 and 1825have both broken ground and are under way 1825 San Jacinto working on the 6th floor: 1711 Caroline has two wood stories on the concrete first story up on the north side, but only the concrete on the southside Last I saw at 1810 Main, nothing much was going on. Maybe the new night club will get them to break ground
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    I agree the biggest problem with making this street a "retail corridor" is the lack of anything at street level in so many of those parking garages. Maybe food trucks could park there on the sidewalk?
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    They definitely won't make the final four
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    The leasing office says now open
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    I thought that a plaza somewhere would be a good idea to take the pressure off the lawn at discovery green - I'm not sure if it would work though
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    New building for Crime Stoppers
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    What is going on with that facade?
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    What if you got rid of the pierce elevated downtown and replaced it with...nothing. You could dual sign East loop as I45, and anyone who wants to take a shortcut through downtown will either be on 59/288 or on surface streets. I'd say demolish the Pierce starting in east downtown on the east side, and have all of the mainlanes demolished south of the Allen parkway exit. You can still do something to straighten out 59 in East downtown, move I-10 north of downtown, etc - but Samagon your right the best thing to do is have thru traffic bypass downtown. The potential issue I could see is this could put even more pressure on West loop to handle traffic from those going up the SW freeway and then going up 45. This would probably require dual stacked west loop to accomplish, and many people would be upset by that
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    It's hard to get your bearings since there's only 2 buildings in this photo that survived, but the church on the left is pretty distinctive, and Central plaza in midtown is too
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    Just realized what this derelict building replaced Looks like that block was all interesting looking houses
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    At the very least a small corner store to buy souvenirs, stuff people forgot to pack, umbrellas...
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    Perhaps when the GRB renovations are done, a lot of the events that are on the lawn right now will be in the plaza in front of GRB As a downtown resident, having that lawn is important - we have too many large paved areas, even if it's permeable
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    At least those cars will get prime lake front views
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