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To be fair, Is the population in the Greenspoint area well off enough to afford HSR tickets to Dallas? I doubt their going to be that cheap. Not sure how it would be helpful to them, other than providing additional victims to roaming thugs.

not saying a greenspoint makes sense, but do you honestly believe other people outside of that stop might go use it?

I don't live near IAH, but I fly out of the occasionally.

Yes

I can't quite get behind an argument that runs "The US is physically large. Let's settle for second-rate infrastructure."

I would qualify this by adding that it is of course impossible to generalize as to the quality of infrastructure. But that said, there are areas in which the US could do better, and should do better, size notwithstanding.

not saying is an excuse, it's a reality.

The roads, electricity, and sewage trashes time and money to install and upgrade, it takes money and time.

As far as cell and broadband goes, they are maintained by private entities who have to keep costs reasonable to have a profit.

When electric and phone services became available, they simply didn't blanket the entire country overnight. It took decades.

Yes, cell service is National, but do guy realize how many dead zones there are between cities?

How much water is subsidized in parts of the country because it is just too expensive?

Yes, it socks to be behind in certain technologies and services, but a company can't be put in the red so everyone can access YouTube or the can text their girlfriend selfies.

That is correct that Europe in many cases has notably better mobile call quality. And while we're discussing infrastructure, better road quality too. Infrastructure in the US is nothing to write home about, as it were.

never mind the fact that their countries are small geographically compared to, say Texas.

How do you think water and Internet get to your home?

It would give the access of information to everyone. There are certain interests that are against that, I guess you're in that category?

everyone should have easy access to water, but that doesn't mean it souks be given away for free.

everything has a cost associated to it.

and finally the east line.

The Latest from the south east Line.

Newest vid is up.

I'd be okay with treating Internet as a form of a utility.  It's accessible to everyone, but would this drop the price?  I don't know.

high speed internet isn't a "Right" people should have, it's something that's nice to have.  In my case, Netflix, YouTube, and school work.

Well, that looks interesting.  Certainly seems like it would speed it up.   Did they do this with the old Sheraton Demo? I don't seem to recall this structure on the outside of it.

They just started putting up barriers.

Ugh.. WHYYY??? Heh, but seriously.. why? The post office site doesn't even have access to the light rail system... What's wrong with the hardy yards site?

C'mon! The walk isn't that big of a deal!

Well, there are a number of sites that China blocks, and just with one Google search, I found this comment on a Chronicle article. In China, the government owns the bandwidth, private companies rent it out.

that's because, y'know communist state.

If that happens, it woud be cool, but it would drive the security over at the Ship Channel a bit crazy, though.

Wiring the US is far more expensive than Europe by just the sheer size of the country.

Hell, just get out of the cities into some of the remote parts of texas and you can see that.

You'd figure that Hines would jump at the chance to make a little extra money by renting out space on the bottom for businesses.  Hell, I'd be happy for a Cell store store there.

My problem with both stations is you could almost predict what songs they were Going to play next.

I May be wrong, but I suspect there were more than a few hundred songs that were hits during that era.

Not sure but Global First Class and BusinessFirst are almost equal.  In Global First the seats are farter apart. 

Heh heh

I hate to admit, I googled giggled too.

It's possible to get closer, but you'd need a tall tripod and possibly a remote trigger release.

But isn't the point of having a light rail system? To be able to bring people in the center before going on another line to their final destinations.

They are doing some sort of work on top of Houston center two, I believe.

They closed off a number of streets downtown because of it.

It's almost time to make another string of videos. 

For the Extention of the north line, I'm debating whether to shoot it just before it opens (schedule permitting) then shoot again in six months, OR to just film it after it starts operating and then go on an annual schedule.

But the real input that I would like is to which equipment to use.

This one was shot with the Sony A55 camera:

This one was shot with a cheap Camcorder I got:

While the samsung allowed me to shoot uninterrupted with minimal edits, I wasn't entirely pleased with the look.  The autofocus issue was my fault because I forgot to disable it, so that shouldn't be taken into account.

Personally, I like the look of the A55, but due to some design issues, I'm unable to shoot more than 10minutes of video at a time.  This makes editing a bit of a pain, but it isn't a dealbreaker for me.

Basically, what I'm asking is:  Which looks better to you?

I think metro was doing it in a more financially responsible way than Dallas.

Two of the lines were built paid for by metro, with the red line extension with government help.

The expansion would have been fairly piecemeal That would have fairly significant ridership numbers.

Dallas method was to build out to the burbs with little thought of inner city transportation, so you have a higher cost per mile per passenger.

The u line would have been a substantial relief in the traffic in the area today is quickly turning into gridlock with all the development that is occurring there.

Not this pig.

I'm still kicking myself for not selling Netflix when it shot up the other morning.