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Montgomery County plans I am particularly happy about this tri-purpose facility, especially the nature center. I have not been over to Riley Fuzzel Rd park area lately, but it seems about time to give it another visit. I have set out on the creek before in a Kayak and it can be pretty tough going in the summer for lack of navigatable water. Now the water is high but cold to go out there. Much of the creek area is really wild, especially near The Woodlands.

A welcoming committee representative should be visiting you soon after you arrive. There will be a lot of information provided.

I have heard recently that the incidents are believed to be tied to local business owners. Someone follows them home, cases it out and then attacks them. This information does not seem to correspond to the news articles however. but I guess identifying the home, casing it and then at some time later attacking, could fit with the rest of the information.

When I go by there, it seems that about every plot of land is for sale.

That area is exploding. The problem will be Kuykendahl which has yet to undergo its widening which will be needed to support additional neighborhoods and the new village of The Woodlands. When they widen that road, it will not be any fun around there.

A surprise to me too. Since the incoming Woodlands job commuting is growing significantly, that is probably the general area where some employees live. The stats were not given, but now I am wondering how many vans park here all day and return back to Houston in the evening.

That article apparently was a temporary one. Does not exist on Thursday.

There I was on a highway in Italy, minding my own business with the pedal to the metal in my "my mid size" car rental, doing about 120 KMs/Hr. I looked back and there was no traffic behind me. Looked in front then back again and this Ferrari WAS ON MY BUMPER! Swishhhhhhh.... and he was gone. To this day I wonder how fast he was going! Scared the living ... out of me.

I searched Google for that term and guess what? It came back to this site and nothing more. So, am I just an old fogey who should know this modern term? Or is it invented by this announcement?

I guess it depends on expected use of the system, but when I go around to the big neighborhood parks, I see as many as 20-30 spaces just sitting there waiting to be occupied. Lots of pavement for little use. That may be different during prime park time on weekends.

My thinking is that pickup and dropoff are doable if we use neighborhood parks. Only to and from Town Center and/or other high density commercial areas, perhaps including Montgomery College which has a huge parking problem.

This improvement or something similar has been needed for some time. It will strengthen the position of The Woodlands in its endeavor to be a full service location for corporate or other group functions. I have been to a few in my time and the old place has been quite nice but a little outdated. Todays Press Release

Toll roads add to the problem of after-traffic planning and development. Funding is always an issue. But then when the traffic gets unbearable, somehow the funds just seem to be there. Maybe, just maybe the Grand Pkwy is ahead of the after-traffic development syndrome. But I can see how toll road funding could throw it back in time.

Houston Chronicle article New toll road being studied from Spring to 242 east of I45 and eventually all the way to Conroe as alternative to I45. Flyover on 242 at I45 to start construction in January.

This is a good way to attract employees. I presume the picture is the actual building model. Nice design and nice location to work.

Thne basic problem is that the stuff on 2978 is mostly not part of The Wodolands and the development company had no input on its design or anything. Most of the properties were not sold to the development company. There remain many properties that will eventually be sold but only because the taxes will be exhorbitant. I looked up the property initally posted in this thread and saw where it had doubled in value over about 4 years, mostly because it is located in a prime property area. I do not know if the properties on 2978 will explode like that or not, but intuitively one would have to say that they probably will. If that is a given, then I see the future as tear it down and rebuild it, but the rebuilding might not be part of the master community plan. Other developers can buy it also and build to their standards unless of course the Township annexes it, which is not out of the question.

New development potential on Kuykendahl. 3.6 frontage acres currently has a home on it. Surrounded by other properties of the development company. Acquired land

Actually the thread topic is parking space. That forms a basis for either inter-commute to work or play and intra-commute to work or play. Sometimes we use the transit system (and rtelated parking areas) to simply go to downtown Houston or the medical center. It is used by some to go to school. The Woodlands is very conscious of the footprint for every parking area whether it is used for work or play (including shopping). Land is very expensive. Personally, I do not like to go to Market Street or the mall at this time of the year because of parking constraints. Right now, the work force at the mall and Market Street are being transported to parking places not very convenient to them in order to open additional parking for shoppers. At this time of the year, the amount of concrete dedicated to parking is of high concern by residents and visitors alike. I just wanted to clear up where I am coming from in my posts on this subject.

Logically, one would have thought that village would have been tied to Klein, but guess it is right on the northern border of that district. I think I heard it is going to have its own high school, in time.

I was thinking about this yesterday. How many parks are there in The Woodlands? A bunch! They have lots of parking spaces - paved and mostly unused. If there was a transportation system which picked up and dropped off people at those parks, especially in peak shopping or event times, we might see improvements. Just an idea not fully thought out, but on the surface it sounds good. Hmmm ... park and ride would take on a completely different meaning.

If a trolley passed by on the hour picking up passengers on The Woodlands Parkway, I would use it. Unfortunately, there has not been much of an effort to put together a mass transportation plan here, probably because of assumptions. If we had a scheduled transportation system, I believe it could work. Just once an hour would be fine. Right now, a person must own a car or have one available to be able to conveniently move about here.

This huge project has been in the making since 2004. Now the state is getting serious and will begin hearings in Feb 2008. Highway 59 will be used as the backbone corridor to provide transportation across Texas all the way to the border. It will give us Texans better mobility to Mexico, to the north and many points in between. It will also provide a means to move traffic through the Houston region. It is unclear now how this new freeway will skirt around Houston. It is a good bet that it will not route over the downtown area. I suppose we will see more details soon. News I69 Information Site I have not looked elsewhere in the archicture forum to see if this subject is being discussed elsewhere.

The response below is an attempt to bring another discussion into this thread and let the other post live its own life. Pineda and I were discussing the growth of the Klein area and plans for the Grand Parkway. His statement is quoted below to get this into step. Woody- I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this part. The Klein area already has good access to 249 & 2920. I really don't believe that the ~$200 million Segment F-2 is not being built to help out anyone in the Klein area. If you do find out where the funding is coming from for Segment F-2, please post that information here. Thanks! I was referring to segment F-2 specifically. I seem to be jumping the gun here. I did not realize the segment was not yet funded. I thought it was part of the legislative funding for highways in the last session. I was remembering something else I suppose. Anyway, I travel down Boudreaux every day and have to disagree with you about easy access from Kuykendahl if that is what you meant. A 7 minute drive to 249 from Kuykendahl will be much appreciated when/if it becomes available. I know there is resistence by some local people to building this parkway. That happens in every proposal like this, but am sure there are some legitimate gripes out there. I hope the right alternative gets selected that accomodates the most stakeholders. In the end, the primary stakeholders are the regional commuters. I feel for landowners in such situations but it has to happen. ----------------- Hmmm, I cannot access the PDF file above anymore. It had a very recent date, so I thought I had found something new. Premature release of information? ... dunno... lost it.

I posted a response in the regional transportation thread so that we can get back on topic. Sorry folks.

We probably should have a general mobility post for this, but this post is the most recent one serving this topic, so I will use it. I found this article interesting describing the need for a more regional mobility projects by the year 2035. I describes an interesting vision by the Houston-Galveston Council Transportation Department. With an additional 3 million people expected to live in our area by 2035, our transportation system requires considerable expansion. "The 2035 RTP began in 2005 with a public outreach effort, called Envision Houston Region (EHR), a broad based public outreach initiative involving hundreds of residents, elected officials developers and others who participated in a series of visioning workshops." This will be an interesting subject for this group to discuss. PDF File