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Isn't it green under those bridges right now?

From that angle it reminds me of the design for new Ford dealership showrooms.

I'd like to meet the powerful executive willing to snuff out careers from the strands of time in order to preserve his beloved tree.

As for light rail one of Houston biggest neg point is getting around, even DT.. I was downtown and a guy in a business suit asked me how to get to dynamo staduim ( The fact that he did not know how to get to DT from DT was a dead give away he was not from here. Now if the rail was up and running at the time how easy would it have been to say go one block over and take the purple line it will drop you right off in front of it.. Instead of telling him the names of a bunch of streets he was most likey not going to remember.. or sending him all the way to the transfer center to catch the bus.. or all the way back up the block to the greyhond to catch a cab... or saying yea it a 7 block walk in Houston heat

I would have just turned and pointed a single finger silently. A helpful downtown direction giving version of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.

I bet the Super Bowl would be totally ruined if they don't get that light rail extension done...

I disagree.

They should make it illegal to ever do extensive repairs on Richmond so as not to disturb the endangered and fragile businesses and residents in the area that would not survive any kind of construction process.

Its probably a better location for Chevron. They should move everybody in Houston to Midland before Conroe.  Its West of Midland so its also closer to Odessa.  Midland is roughly the size of the Woodlands and Odessa is larger than Conroe. So an argument can be made that the "suburban Midland" campus is more "somewhere" than Camp Strake. The idea of moving to Camp Strake for a company that occupies 2 skyscrapers in downtown Houston  and is considering building a 3rd is ludicrous. Its not going to happen.

No. Exxon built a campus that Chevron only heard about in like the last 3 months, and it has shattered their world and caused them to rethink all of their facilities development. Its probably the most successful campus in history and its not even built yet. Chevron must follow suit, even if they have to move to Conroe.

NONE of the bungalows on the 1200 block of Rutland could be permitted today. They are all too close to the ground they ALL need to be raised by 8" to 16". How do you factor this into eave and ridge height requirements?

I imagine that the idea of restricting construction to something that cannot legally be built and therefore leaving development in gridlock actually fills him with glee.

As for Shell, their current landlord seems busy building new office towers rather than worrying about filling the space of its major tenant.

Chevron is not moving to Camp Strake. It would be suicide by professional employee mass exodus. If something Exxon did convinced them to do that then I salute the nefarious Exxon masterminds.

I suggest passing the hat around for donations in order to turn the lot into the "StopClose the Heights Wal*Mart Protest Sculpture"

I dunno about realistic right of way, but the ROW along Hempstead Rd runs to Hempstead, then through college station along Hwy 6 then veers off toward Mexia before you get to Waco, rejoining 45 in Richland and then along 45 through the southern suburbs at which point it comes to Dallas and can come in various locations around Dallas south and east of downtown or perhaps on the west side of downtown along the stemmons freeway.

Time for retribution against the Leader.

Why exactly is this being compared to the Pierce elevated, which was purposely built "elevated" to allow access across it?  If you're going to compare the way this affects traffic patterns on E/W bound streets, then your basis for comparisons are OBVIOUS and they already exist in the area affected...the North Freeway, the East Tex freeway, Hardy Toll Road, and the Union Pacific ROW along the Hardy.  I don't even have to see this thing to know that probably the main routes E/W are the same as they've always been and that they are the same streets that are able to cross the UP ROW along the Hardy toll road. Any bitching is just someone no longer able to cut across on a small street or lane like they used to, but I highly doubt that same small street got you anywhere else because of the freeways and existing rail anyway.

It might be the word that Chevron recruiters will use for it.

But Comcast customer service is exemplary! No way could THEY be at fault!!

LMAO at the idea of Chevron relocating their Houston presence to Conroe

Sue him for libel!

Also, I'm shocked by the libel on these boards. I sure hope everyone on here knows what they are doing.

Lol

I support the right to give an opinion that someone else is a jerk and hypocrite. After all I might need it here.

Every neighborhood for all time has had nutcases who stick their noses where it doesn't belong and try to run other people's lives "for the good of everybody"

Some neighborhoods don't give those people power and some do.

I agree that it comes from a sense of smug superiority and arrogance rather than an actual economic decision for most of those people.

I just mourn for those that were truly inconvenienced. Those who had to drive by and look at it.