Danny1022

I wish I could delete my post...

Thousands of houses and businesses yes maybe im exaggerating, but really if there's a way to not take right of way then I would consider that if there's mo space then take it, but don't just randomly take houses that aren't necessary to take. But really including the ones North of the 10 that becomes over a thousand. The 24 blocksI include parking lot blocks and the ones at the curve of the 45 59 interchange. But blocks with houses or businnesee are 19 Whatever this project is the damn worst crap I've seen, every crap O say is controversial. This is the first time someone replies to me, although to complain haha, I hate myself... cos I come up with alternatives, either no one hears or everyone complains, i try to make common sense no one hears, i would list them but I know no one will hear and all I'll get are complains so I shall not. whatever. I'm glad I'm considering moving to England for university. Houston sucks anyway. Thank you.

You probably are misunderstanding.. (Although your idea isn't as bad as the txdot mess...) They're demolishing the stupid pierce... I don't know why, probably to benefit a friend they have working in downtown Houston. (Sounds more disgusting than cheese) But there arent express lanes, there's nothing, only reruting of the 45 which sounds bad And add 2 lanes to the 59 And I don't get how 99.99999% of the people who know about this project are in favour of the pierce demolition. In their plan. 3 lanes go on the 45 southbound. (Same as before) some ramps are reduced to 1 lane. Thousands of houses/businesses are demolished, it costs 4 thousand million dollars, how is this a good idea. Why not simply have common sense because nothing makes sense. Every one says they won't widen the pierce cos it's a barrier (barrier is the new project they cut some necessary streets) their alternative isn't a good idea. Ughh...

I know this is stupid But... I'm sick of this project in sick of it why don't they demolish every freeway like this post says. I know it's an April fools post... but I feel... like we need to shut the mouths of those complainers. So this should be done. Cos it's annoying. http://houstonstrategies.blogspot.com/2016/04/txdot-responds-to-mayor-turners-call-to.html?m=1 I don't care... but that way people will stop complaining because they'll beg to bring back the freeways and no one will hear them. Ugkkhhhh

Then one could simply take off one lane from pierce street and that'd make it easier, besides the downtown streets are too wide and so busy compared to other avenues including the 45 like in the photo which I hope it got uploaded, and drawings aren't so great.

It does add capacity only because it would be a longer distance, and the addition of lanes depends on where they're adding the lanes, But the fact that there are 3 extreme curves immediately forces the speed limit to drop dramatically. Also they don't eliminate every left exit that exists, in some parts there are even many exits in one place instead of one exit to carry all traffic and then would split. When its necessary 2 lanes are added on the 59, on the 45 southbound it stays 3 lanes wide(same as today), but on the 45 northbound it's 5 lanes. And indeed the 45 is widened to 3 lanes at the 59 interchange, but those 3 lanes include traffic coming from the 59 eastex freeway. What would slow down traffic the most are mostly mostly the curves at the interchanges, plus the fact that most traffic in downtown is through traffic. And also keep in mind the levels of traffic now compared to how they'll Be in the future, when they Finnish the project there may even be the same speed and Sane number of traffic jams So the 45 could be widened, the 59 too but just one lane added, and the Allen pkwy interchange coild just be reconstructed and have all right exits and the 45 won't have To go from 5 lane to 3 lanes and instead from 5 lanes to 4 lanes, as well as the 10 interchange which could be just be redesigned and widen the 10 where it merges to 2 lane because that is a bad bottleneck. As well as adding space for cars to merge easily Maybe widen the 59 to 5 or maximum 6 lanes but not sure, and widen from 1 to 2 lanes the 59 eastex to 45 gulf and from the 59 South to the 10 Katy Also have comments about the 45 North of the 10 but that's another story. Maybe on future plans have an express lane highway parallel next to the railroad in the EaDo part, but as long term plans. That'll solve the bottlenecks on the 45 59 and 10 on a more reasonable amount of money.. benefiting all through traffic the same as their project would. hope this is satisfying for most although I know I'll get at least one complaint.

Yes, that makes sense, one coukd build a subway (either elevated or ground level, to the Katy area or uptown or the north ) and only widen the pierce, reconstruct the 59, allen interchange and modify the i 10 interchange, maybe widen the 59 somewhat staying on the right of way, and also rebuild old bridges, and eliminating some bad merging zones, plus the 59 changes South of the 288. Simple. It makes more sense than rerouting and making those weird tight turns and put all underground and demolishing 24 blocks next to the 59. And make buses that have stops often and that are for shorter routes and affordable rather than for long distances and , and the longer trips made on subway. And if the subway is far then easily take a bus to get close to the subway station, and yeah, similar to cities like London Berlin or Paris. Although that's just a suggestion not a full confirmation. just saying..

I'm sick of this project, I despise it and it's ugly , and tunnels are scary, and elevated highways are the best thing ever.. I've tried to make sense I've tried to make everyone have common sense and have come up with 9 alternatives, all kept the pierce, yet no one listened, and there were only controversy coments, only few people bothered to see these plans. That doesn't matter txdot is stubborn anyway... Out if all of the people I know who have 'both' hated this project and didn't mention public transportation, only one lives in Houston the rest of the controversy seems to be in Europe or other parrs of the us where they don't mind... nor care. Tunnels are ugly and scary , but well... I won't take the 45 nor 59 after they do this project.. besides itd make it less complicated to go on the 610 than take 3 curves of over 80° turns to go to southwest Houston. And by the way. Txdot sucks, not just on this project. But they're messing up on other projects like the 610 bus lanes, the bus system sucks and there isn't a Houston underground or over ground... And the 610 59 project. That'll need to be widened eventually... And other mess. Sorry if you dislike this but it's true I wish that on the poll above there were a keep pierce option cos I'd definitely choose that one. Cos I'm strongly against that reruting . Shhh...

Yes, exactly. There needs to be opposition, I've tried to convince many people and only 3 didn't become ignorant, the bad thing is only one of those is from Houston. So that's a problem. The Houstonians either don't know about it or are for it, and I'm sure all people who know about it are for it. I'll say things to make it make semse. And hopefully some will get some common sense. Cos this plan makes no sense. 1 "how do they know that there'll be 24% higher speeds" They haven't tested the highway cos it hasn't been built. Oh and it's 24%now, in 10 years it'll be a lower number cos the number of cars will rise. 2 they'll clear 14 half blocks of the pierce. 14 halves equals 7 blocks.. kind of. They'll demolish about 20 blocks on the east side.. that's not including an entire apartment complex, they're all like highways like the pierce destroy neighbourhoods, no, the new plan destroys the entire apartment complex, that's just like destroying a neighbourhood in its entirety... 3 distances. And curves of the rerouting. Ugh it makes the routes from west, North and northwest, to the South and southwest longer and harder because of the 3 curves of over 80 degrees at the 3 interchanges of downtown. That'll encourage people to take the already congested 610 or the 59.which are amongst the most congested highways in Texas. 4 the pierce and the 59 elevated are a barrier... the txdot plan is a barrier they close more streets than there already are. They cut Polk street, runnels street and i think commerce street too. And demolish chartres street. Plus the conection to bell street And various streets in midtown on the 59. 5 underneath highways in Houston don't work... I'm not saying they might flood, I'm saying they will flood. The pierce can be a good highway since it's elevated.. And they'll need money to pump the water out. 6 they're mostly benefiting the arrogant business owners of those large buildings the ones who asked for the pierce demolition.rather than what most people affected would benefit, most people affected would be through traffic, so then they should be the benefited ones, since they're majority, I guess this isn't positive but.. I guess I was trying to get my thoughts out Cos I totally despise this project. And I've tried to get an idea of an alternative but that failed with most people to whom I've showed so I guess using common sense and protesting would thebest way... I guess.. Sorry I wrote so much.

Hi.. I don't know, but I have come up with an alternative to the txdot plan which I can't say it would be cheaper or better than the original plan but i think it wouldn't take so much unnecessary right of way, and it would definitely add more capacity than their proposal, the elevated highways would stay but the underneath of the highways would have walls built and would be filled with some type of dirt like in normal bridges in other parts of the city. Also, most left exits would be eliminated, unlike on the txdot plan in which they keep a lot of left exits and irregular lane configurations. The US-59 South of tx-288 would be almost the same as the original txdot plan but with exits of the hov to the mainlanes. An exit from both the tx288 and us59 that would carry traffic to some exits and to the i-10/45N those lanes would carry entrances. They'd be 2 lanes exiting from the us59, merging with 2 from the tx288, making 4 lanes, then at the 45 interchange 2 lanes would merge making 6 lanes, then 4 lanes would exit at the i-10 interchange and the other 2 would continue and merge again at the us-59 main through traffic lanes(there would also be various exits to downtown), 3 lanes would be separated for through traffic. The i-45 and i-10 traffic to the 59 would go on a 4 lame connector similar to the one on the 290/610 to the i-10 The express lanes would be at all 3 highways, the i-10 would have one in each direction as well as the us-59 from i-10 to i-45. The us-59 would have 2 from the 288 to the 45 as well as the i-45 from the i-45hov to the us-59 and from West Dallas street all the way to the beltway 8. The 45 from us-59 to West Dallas street would be 3 lanes wide, there would be a direct connector from the us-59 express to the i-45 express. The pierce will stay the same width but there would be 3 express lanes in each direction underground. Also, there would be a direct connector separated but parallel To the 45 which would exit before the 10/45 interchange and would carry traffic to downtown. In total, the lane configuration would be.. At the i-10/45 interchange Current, 21 lanes , txdot: 28, mine 40 I45 at Washington avenue Current, 10 lames, txdot 4 (i-45 not included cos rerouted), mine 20(including 6 of the downtown connectors I-10 at main Current 8 lanes, txdot 5 lames(3 main, 2 express), mine 5 lanes(4 main and 1 express) (not including their rerouted i-45 and my connector to us 59) Us-59 elevated and pierce elevated combined. Currently, 14 lanes total, 7 in each direction, 8 on the 59 and 6 on the 45. Txdot, 20 total, 11 northbound 9 southbound, 12 on the 59 and 8 on the 45, no express lanes. Mine, 32 total, 16 on each direction, 10 on the 45 and 12 on the 45, and total of 8 express lanes, 6 on the 45 and 2 on the 59 Us-59 between i-45 and tx-288 Currently 16 lanes, txdot 20 , mine 20 lanes as well (4 for direct connectors to the i-45, 8 of exiting traffic, 6 for through traffic, 2 for express lane traffic) It's probably the most idiotic plan that has ever been invented but.. I guess I wanted to share it,