ricco67
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I'm one of those patrons that will utilize the rail to get to and from the theater district. When we don't stay overnight to make a weekend out of it, we park a decent distance to get agreeable parking. The hobby garage, as I have learned is a bear to get out of after a performance. Besides it'll make it easier to have a good meal before and after the performance.
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Tell you one thing, construction could be a bit of a challenge. Two of the strees will have light rail tracks. Any theories on how they will handle it?
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By the way, I noticed a train in the burnett stop s but ago. I guess they are accelerating the testing schedule?
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Faster technology? Teleportation? Explain how you would do it? Please realize there are several communities that live on the way to Bush that could also utilize that line.
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Like I said previously, in only a very few instances, would an express to the airport work work. Simply not enough ridership to justify it.
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No. A rail line needs to be efficient in what it is designed for. From there people will utilize it best if its properly designed.
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The Beijing Express for one. I want to say shanghai airport has another, but I don't recall.
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The point is, there is NO express. The only one that can be considered an express is Reagan, and only because its so close to DC its ridiculous. You can almost walk to it from the Capital building. Chicago has a significant amount of usage. I forget exactly, but it was a number of stops and about 30-45 minutes from downtown. Yes, you can build a link to The airports. Yes. They will be utilized. But no, they won't get the numbers you expect them to have. Express Rail lines aren't the way to go. At least, not currently. 30 yrs from now? Maybe.
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But are those EXPRESS lines? I've been to Chicago, NYC, Boston, and Atlanta. NONE have express to downtown. You board the train and you sit there for awhile with all the other transit riders until you get to your general destination.
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I think as long as there is *A* connection to the airport it would be just fine. Not everyone coming to and from IAH is planning on making a stop directly to downtown. The Metro Express was poorly executed, but from what I understand, they were hampered in different ways so it wouldn't piss off the Taxi companies as well. Please name cities that have DIRECT EXPRESS rail from their airports to DOWNTOWN. At this juncture, I can only think of one.
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But as I have mentioned in other threads, odds are its going to be used mainly by tourists and seasonal travelers that are looking to save a few bucks. Businessmen greatly don't care and will just want to get to and from the iah.
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No, you build something that is needed, in this case, it needs to be elevated ort else there would have to be a shut down and maintenance problems every time there is a major rain event.
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It took me awhile, but I finally got a chance to take another photo. It didn't quite turn out like I was hoping for (still saving up for that smaller lens), but you get the general idea of how big this is going to be. If you're on a cell phone, save your data plan and bail. Look at it at home. EDIT: Can we merge a couple of the archstone threads? it took me awhile to find this one.
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The more I think about it, the train should be elevated with the HOT lane underneath. 288 is too prone to flooding.
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They had high food prices I'm the land of milk and honey? Who would have thunk it?
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They can still put HOT lanes, but put them above or below the tracks.
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It's a fair guess they won't allow anyone within a block facing the demo to be able to look outside the glass windows facing it.
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I don't see that happening. That's still too close. Views for this are going to suck.
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Additionally, your name shouldn't be Walter White.
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Yeah, I think it could be doable.
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I would hazard to say that he is. Galveston's problems of sinking into the seas is more of a danger from erosion then climate change. I'm not saying climate change isn't happening, but it would be pretty arrogant of us as a race to say that we're the only factor, let's not forget a few decades ago, we were worried about "global cooling." Maybe NASA needs to speed up our ability to establish intergalactic colonies, our son will eventually be snuffed out. -
So you're saying that all the taxes that are taken from local tax payers, should not be used on anything doesn't benefit the nation in some form? So should we regress into forming our own city-states? The construction/expansion of freeways is hardly done without some form of of disruption in traffic and businesses in the area. If you're a small business located along these major projects, the disruption in business can be catastrophic. For all the whining that people do about Light Rail construction on the local level, it has no where near the chaos a freeway project does but with more local benefits.
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The Sovereign At Regent Square: Multifamily At 3233 W. Dallas St.
ricco67 replied to Urbannizer's topic in Montrose
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Finding a different way around Downtown Parking hassles
ricco67 replied to ricco67's topic in Traffic and Transportation
The reason for the "blah" is because I didn't want to quote the entire msg. Maybe you're just seeing to much into things. The restrictions I was referring to are the streets that do not permit parking between 4 and 6pm. Like I said, I wanted a place to park without having to worry about getting a ticket or towed. As I was saying, I parked on the corner of polk and Milam. -
Went to see wicked last night and I saw that the valets have a private driveway so they don't have to go out on the street to bring cars in. Thought that was pretty slick.
