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There are (were) only about 10-12 legit trees along Yale at wildly dispersed locations (the ones right in front of the stone yard are basically the only place where they all survived, possibly because somebody tended those, I dont know). Any others you add to that to get to 19 opr whetever must be scrub trees that just happened to be there around the underpass or something.

Tree hater? I am the exact opposite of a tree hater. A "tree-lover" you ask? No, I simply don't care one iota at all about these trees.

Doubtful, I think we know exactly when these trees were planted and it was in the early 90's because these are probably the same age as the trees that people pissed and moaned about lining Yale north of I-10 until the Yale street project was cancelled and changed to a resurface.

I feel sorry for anyone who actually has strong feelings about trees like this. I'm certain that there arent very many of those people though, even among those people who will feign outrage.

I have lived in "Northern Rice Military" west of TC Jester (also known as the southern part of Cottage Grove). $250k 3/3 tract townhomes are the norm and there is not much "high end" about them, and their proximity or distance from WalMart is an inconsequential factor in the areas development when compared to the West End. How many of the 36 are in Cottage Grove?

There are very few homes in the Heights within a mile of this particular Wal*Mart. Perhaps opposition comes from the fact that this WalMart just isnt close enough.

The surface area is large enough for a typical FIFA pitch. The Dynamo have striped the field at a width of 70 yards instead of 74 or 75 as a tactical preference. The coach feels that a narrow picth suits the tactics and players on the team.

Seattle is so dissimilar to Houston that I'm not sure how much of that article would ever apply here beyond the fact that yes some neighborhoods can go NIMBY here as they can anywhere.

Yes the typical easy to look at stats that you see for a soccer match is (obviously) the score, % of possession, shots/shots on goal, and corners. In addition to usually representing an opportunity to creat a chance to score, a corner is also indicitave that one team was on the attack to draw the corner or put the team under pressure enough that the other team was forced to concede the corner. A team that dominates the number of corner kicks is often the team that is dictating play and getting more into attack. Sometimes you will also see number of fouls, and that kind of thing as well.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/05/10/3952503/details-of-dfw-bullet-train-proposal.html

I also shy away from baseball comparisons. Baseball is still king, as far as drawing spectators in to see a ballgame. Japanese baseball is 2nd in worldwide attendance and draws more people through its gates every year than the NBA, NFL, and NHL do in the United States at about 21 million fans per season. MLB is of course way beyond that at almost 75 million fans per year. No sport in the world keeps people coming back to the park like baseball, its hard to compare apples to apples when comparing baseball teams drawing for so many games to other leagues.

Soccer is a lot more popular with the under 30 crowd in the USA than the over 40 mainstream sports crowd cares to admit (some are even openly hostile to the idea of it). Soccer will never be bigger than baseball, basketball, football barring a massive paradigm shift (and some soccer fans would do well to remember that they arent as close to taking over the country as they think) but that doesnt mean it wont ever be a mainstream sport. It is very close to reaching that tipping point, I think, but people in general wont realize that has happened until a newer guard of sportswriters and sportscasters is still in place. Still you can see just within the past few years that ESPN and Fox see the writing on the wall and have started making big investments in soccer. A ridiculous amount of people in this country watched a game between two teams a few miles apart in Manchester play last week on a Monday afternoon. That kind of international competition isnt all that great for MLS, but I think in this case the rising tide of the sport will lift all boats.

Pretty sure this particular development actually involved, gasp, tearing down an old ratty apartment project.

Ha. yeah, apartment complexes are going to destroy the area. I live in the Heights. Like right in the middle of the Houston Heights subdivision, in a single family house on a residential lot. There are at least 5 apartment complexes within 2 blocks of my house that are right in the middle of residential blocks similar to mine. They have been there for years and years...

I'm going to throw out a wild guess. The city already owns the land and has control?

Uh, what?

Note the position of the crosswalks at Heights and 6th. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.781487,-95.397578&spn=0.001393,0.001206&hnear=Houston,+Texas+77008&t=h&z=20

In other words, even if there was a pedestrian bridge built between the two Heights bridges to continue a path along the median, a pedestrian would be expected to cross to the sidewalks at the I-10 feeder roads regardless. Our lighted intersections are(apparently) not designed to handle pedestrian traffic crossing in the median safely (although most do anyway).

That is how you are supposed to cross every major intersection with a light along the Heights trail. If you get to 11th or 6th, you will note that there is no crosswalk in front of you that leaves your trail and goes across to the trail directly in front of you. You are supposed to cross right (or left) across Heights with the the light, then cross 6th or 11th, then cross Heights back to the median.

Perhaps Washington Ave gets infected with a zombie plague, but nobody notices any difference between the before and after zombification.

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I'm going to write a short story where a lonely, golden-hearted Wal*Mart trucker with a conscience who is just trying to make a living, accidentally turns onto Yale and goes over the bridge leading to catastrophic structural failure. As the truck plunges into the abyss below, cargo is hurled around in the trailer leading to damage to the top secret Wal*Mart R&D equipment contained therein. The soul essences of Wal*Mart employees mix with the shattered dreams of small town moms and pops, and is subsequently ignited by the spark of imagination from countless chinese underage workers leading to a massive energy release from the resulting matter/anti-matter annihilation. The resulting explosion destroys everything within a quarter mile radius of the bridge and induces some sort of radioactive fallout upon the bedraggled citizens living in the Heights' historic districts. A secondary plot line revolves around the family interactions of one Heights resident who tried to warn everyone about the dangers, and her tragic inability to reach the very people who were in the most danger because she was unable to come across as anything but a self-absorbed know-it-all.

Thats what I said, but I highly doubt the lights will function as described during normal use. Pretty sure the city doesnt go calling every sign that can be flipped on and off to blink at the switch an attention getting device just because it "could" be used that way.

Perhaps if they do blink, strobe or flash. But I doubt they will. The design element is probably supposed to be more similar to the memorial city area lighting where they can pick multiple accent colors.