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Is this multifamily? Or just a bigass townhouse-style house?
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It was a hell of a day to be on a bike, though!
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I think some of it is also the terrible default property setup with the store occupying the back corner of a parking crater. A pharmacy + convenience store model can certainly work fine in a city, but it shouldn't occupy a full city block.
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Ah, so that's what X Houston is doing. An homage to Heaven on Earth.
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Freudian slip?
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I think that's the presupposition we are all fantasizing about.
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I've been in twice since it opened. CVS wasn't exactly a happy place but good lord does Dollar Tree just suck the life out of everyone inside. Azkaban vibes.
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I doubt it, given the proposed Mandell stop on the University BRT line. That said, I could see and would support their doing something similar to the modal filters on Main at (e.g.) Anita.
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The Chronicle's reporting on this and METRORapid have been particularly bad. They haven't been great on NHHIP either, but these two have really stood out as almost Click2Houston-level lazy. They need an infrastructure-beat reporter who is actually interested in infrastructure enough to want to learn more about projects and their contexts than whatever it takes to fill 700 words.
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I think you're misrepresenting things a bit here. The new medians protected drivers, too.
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That would be awesome.
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You mean the park (which Google Maps calls "Park")? I don't think that's part of this project. That said, it should be something more than it is now. Keep it a park by all means, but it shouldn't be just blank grass and a couple of trees. Great for dogs, though.
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North Main Street Safety Improvement
004n063 replied to Triton's topic in Bicycles and Other Low-Impact Modes
Wow, I did not realize how new WOMH was. Makes sense. That said, I still think a North Main routing would have been smart. It would have given more of the Heights access to decent transit and would have catalyzed more TOD along the corridor than we've gotten with Fulton. Nothing terribly wrong with the Fulton routing - I just think that, like the Purple line, it suggests a very limited view of transit's role, which is something we continue to deal with at the upper "vision" levels. -
I-10 Inner Katy Managed Lanes Project
004n063 replied to hindesky's topic in Traffic and Transportation
**smirks smugly in bicycle** (Look, we don't get a lot of opportunities to gloat here. Just let me have this.) -
North Main Street Safety Improvement
004n063 replied to Triton's topic in Bicycles and Other Low-Impact Modes
I think it really should have gone up N. Main in the first place. It should have always been the main way to get to WOMH (and a connection to the eastern Heights) but the awkward turn at Boundary preserved it as a drive-to spot. -
There were medians on the north and south sides of the intersections, which created pedestrian refuge in the center. There were turning lane median cuts about 150 feet south of the intersection that enabled turns.
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North Main Street Safety Improvement
004n063 replied to Triton's topic in Bicycles and Other Low-Impact Modes
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Are you suggesting that supply and demand affect housing prices? Blasphemy!
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He said pedestrian safety is the responsibility of law enforcement this morning. In other words, **shrug emoji**.
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Hilton Home2 Suites/TRU Hotel At 1540 Leeland St.
004n063 replied to Paco Jones's topic in Going Up!
"Lack of demand" and "insufficient demand to offset the willingness of a real estate holdings arm of a giant institutional investment bank to wait out other property owners so as not to have to sell or rent at current market prices" are, to my mind, different things. Fill the area with S/1BR/2BR/3BR apartments renting at $700/$1000/$1500/$2000 a pop and you'd see plenty of demand, not to mention a much more vibrant and fiscally healthy city center. But of course, evil socialist agenda and whatnot.- 96 replies
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I just meant the trend of "[abstract noun] at [made-up district/neighborhood name]." It's better than the trend of goofily audacious-sounding words from 10-15 years ago (Latitude, Ascend, Catalyst), but not by much. Not sure I've ever seen anything worse than "Pointe," though.
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It will be interesting to see what becomes of this area after NHHIP. It may end up being the first neighborhood to be improved by a downtown highway widening project.
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Well, then! Sounds like we need us a Lower 82 LRT line! How bout Yellow? (In these Whitmired times, I've decided to lean into a delusional optimism, so please just let me have this.)
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God I really hope we leave this era of apartment building names in the dustbin of history
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I don't think I can handle jokes like these right now