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    There is literally Hicks Street bridge over Studemont, that should be where pedestrians go, not trying to cross at Summer st.
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    https://www.lovettcommercial.com/properties/houston/polk---dowling
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    this was the original Biscuit building, so I imagine that signage is just pre-existing and will be removed love this for the area
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    I've lived in first ward since the start of the year and i've seen/heard nothing about that. The only street stuff thats currently proposed is reconnecting summer street so you can actually get from target to kroger, and there is a request to the transpo board to change crockett from a major thoroughfare to a minor.
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    Why do you think I wouldn't already know this? You can also point to the fact he publicly distanced himself from Trump. You should really question why you think his opportunistic nature is a positive. I would say the typical HAIF'er is pretty smart and over-thinking things before they post. Almost all of the arguments on this forum are absurdly nit-picky and require someone to be very-deep into the content/knowledge to really care about the things enough to argue for/against them.
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    he literally held a Trump fundraiser at his house and started his campaign with that pig commercial. Why are you bringing garbage/lies into this forum? a transit center doesn't exist.. there is nowhere in that corridor where a transit center even makes sense to be placed... also, we still have no idea what a BRT-line looks like when it's part of(?) the interstate. And, again... currently, if you're dropped off at shepherd at i10, you're in a weird no-mans land that isn't walkable to either washingtn ave or the walkable-parts of the heights.
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    i follow this stuff and would say i'm probably in the 95% percentile when it comes to understanding what they've proposed.. but i still have no idea how a i10 BRT would work or look or function. The idea that somehow people would be happy(?) with being dropped off somewhere near the Raising Canes/Wendys and that that would somehow be a destination that makes sense to anyone is beyond me.
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    THE FIRST LIGHTRAIL STOP WEST OF DOWNTOWN!!! We'VE FINALLY DONE IT!!!!!!! URBAN DENSITY, HERE WE COME!
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    i was at the meeting last night too and I saw no maps with potential changes. It was just maps of what exists and maps of the most current txdot plans...... like the downtown partnership plans weren't in the building in any way shape or form. it was maybe 120 people? It was the consulting firm, CoH, Metro, UH's design ppl, and some tdot ppl quietly listening.... they gave us a run down of where we are in the timeline and how f'd we are, and then had large tables (in english and spanish) for 4 issues (Connections, Traffic, Environment/Flooding, Property). People were asked to sit in groups for 20 minutes and the consulting firm/UH/CoH people would lead discussions while a second person wrote all the notes down. Some discussions were better than others, but there were just so many competing voices and issues for 20 minutes to be enough time... a lot of 2ndward/eastside people were there and it was specifically not about their section, which got awkward real quick when they tried to ask about their part. There was absolutely no "heres our ideas!"-type of thing from the city or consulting firm.
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    GIVE ME BACK WENDYS PLEASE
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    i don't think this was about traffic as much as safety (correct me if i'm wrong?) bc people would have gnarly accidents trying to switch at the last minute at night. because, yea..... if this was about less congestion, then all the engineers at TXDOT need to be fired and never allowed to work on road design ever again. It is worse, and it is worse literally at all times of day. before this, if you took i45north before rush hour, there was very rarely congestion, now there is congestion 100% of the time, 2pm-traffic, 9pm-traffic. it is miserable.... and it will only be worse when UH starts.
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    who in their right mind would be ok with putting their car into a mechanical valet box? it's like... let's add the wait time and shitty classist nature of valets to the unreliability of a large public-facing machine? there is literally no benefit to the consumer of this sort of system, it's all in increasing revenue, who cares if the moment this thing breaks there will be dozens of people not able to get their car at the end of the night.
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    the high first ward historic district saved a good number of them, and I literally live in a 1880s-built house in the lower first ward that i'd like to think is in better than very-rough-shape 😅
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    everything that wasn't colored east of sawyer would be a house built 100+ years ago too. which i think is what makes 6th ward + 1st ward so special.
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    replacing local restaurants with pass-their-prime national chains and removing all free parking is just... sad. I would love to meet whatever idiot that runs Mendocinco farms that came to houston and ate at Local Foods and Dish Society and watched East Hampton already close a store and thought "yup, we should enter this market".
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    Houston just doesn't have the sort of businesses that need a lot of public-facing webapps. I'm in this sector and had to move to Dallas (dfw-based firms with need for large tech workforces: Southwest, Pizzahut, 7/11, Citi, Fidelity, ATT, American Airlines, etc.) to find a job, i managed to find a weird job to bring me back to Houston, but i've now been applying for 8 months to other jobs in Houston, and unless its b2b/internal facing O&G dataviz, it just doesn't really exist here, i think Discover/Pulse is the only large non-OG company with a webdev department here.
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    i lived in Dallas for 3 years and recently moved back to Houston. It's insane how much better central Dallas's movie theater options are than Houston's. From still having their Angelika, to having a huge brand new Alamo Drafthouse on the outskirts of downtown, to Inwood Theater and Highland Park theater, to Texas Theatre, to Magnolia Theater, a nice dolllar theater in Irving, half dozen decent mall movie theaters within 15 miles of downtown. central Houston has... River Oaks playing movies only for senior citizens and the AMC8 thats a shallow shell of its former sundance which was a hollow shell of its former Angelika and that absurd iPic, and then Edwards Greenway with its paid parking garage. It sucks.
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    I'm concerned this is going to be an iPix with how small the cinema footprint is. Our town desperately needs more movie theaters, but not ones where it's $17 to see a movie in a small room. I'm also really concerned/saddended that there is no obvious connection with the MKT trail, because that would be the way I come here 80% of the time.
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    was flabbergasted by how well it looks when driving by it yesterday. If only there was some way to get the giant midrise being built above the plumbing store to have the same sort of architectual lines/vibe.
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    theres a "new kind of department store" thats opened in dallas and about to open in NYC. If this was announced as the anchor, I'd feel a lot more confident in this project: https://neighborhoodgoods.com/ The biggest Issue I haven't seen brought up yet is that this will be essentially the groundzero of the i45 apocalypse. There will be months/years/decades(?) where there will be major highway/parkway construction that will make this impossible to get to on weekends/weeknights.
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    i see 0 chance of the traffic they've caused from this change to be lessened in the least from when the 59s exist opens. all the new traffic is literally from 3 right lanes merging into 1.
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    so we're... 18 months from people complaining about Martha’s Kitchen and the Catholic Charities on reddit?
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    we desperately need to keep a halfprice books in that part of town. maybe they'll end up as one of the mid-sized boxstores in the area between Target and Krogers?
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    biggest difference is you don't get sweaty taking a scooter 1-2 miles. source: we own both bikes and scooters and our decision on which to take is based almost completely on if we can be sweaty where we're ending up.
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    didn't want to create a new thread so.... I've bought a lovely old house that someone put split units in. Does anyone know of a a/c company in central houston that might specialize in these units? I kind of just need someone to walk me through maintenance best practices, etc.
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