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I still have it, plus a bunch of others. I just need to figure out how to post somewhere more permanent than tinypic

Samoan Airlines has specific reasons to use weight based pricing that don't generally apply to other companies.

I've never had the permit site work with anything other than Internet Explorer. Everything else just sits there waiting.

The KBR site is a third the size and harder to get to. That was never going to happen.

No, unless Houston allows it, which I very seriously doubt would happen. Houston essentially controls all of Harris County for incorporation/annexation purposes.

Rain water goes into the storm sewer and then into the bayous. Very little rain makes it into the sanitary sewer, which is a good thing. And, the outfall of the sewage treatment plants also goes into the bayous, and then into the Gulf. Houston does not recycle the water that comes out of the treatment plants, which is also a good thing, given how much water doesn't make it into the bays from the rivers.

Even London has parts of town where transit isn't very good. I had some meetings there some time ago at an office that was over a mile from the nearest tube station, and half a mile from the nearest bus. And this was in Fulham, which is not exactly remote. Walking from the tube to the office was less than pleasant when the weather was cold and wet. Houston developed as a car city, once they became affordable. The density here was never high enough to make widespread use of streetcars viable, as there were no geographical limits on growth. It was far easier to move out rather than up, and far easier to spread some oyster shell to make a road than to lay some tracks. I'll have to ask my 89 year old neighbor if she remembers much about the street cars.

Here you go http://texaswetlands.org/wetland-types/prairie-pothole-and-marsh-wetlands/

Which is why no one in London owns a car, right? My Granddad lived on 17th near Yale from 1914 to 1920 or so. They drove everywhere if his Dad was around, otherwise they walked or took a cab. Of course it helped that his Dad was a car salesman.

Pierce Junction is the surface expression of a salt dome, as is Blue Ridge over on McHard Road. The best nearby example of how a salt dome can create high spots is High Island, closely followed by Barber's Hill. If you look at the 1944 images on Google Earth, you can see prairie potholes all over the place, as well as just how few trees there were back then.

The City needs to pay more attention to the areas impacted by rail projects. However, I think the politicians are so blinded by seeing their name on the vanity plaques that they just don't care. The one thing they do pay attention to is money, which is why Afton Oaks gets listened to and the Near North Side doesn't. My in-laws live near Irvington and Collingsworth, we live in Timbergrove.Since rail construction started, we can never tell what the best way to go is. And once rail is finished, the side streets we used will be blocked, permanently. AO has access from Westheimer, but that's it Two entrances from Westheimer, 3 from Richmond. Eliminate the ability to turn left off Richmond headed East, and residents will probably have to go all the way to Wesleyan to make a U-Turn, unless Metro deigns to put one in at Mid. And the people who live on Richmond will have their lives utterly destroyed during construction.

I wasn't a supporter of the Katy expansion because of the amount of private property it took. The project essentially destroyed the commercial property tax base for Spring Valley. However, the single track right of way was nowhere large enough for commuter rail, and all the crossings were at grade. Those factors alone made it unusable for commuter rail. Any rail project would have had to run in the middle of the freeway, and that's not going to happen any time soon. I also think there is little to no demand for commuter rail. The infrastructure can't be used for anything else during slow times, unlike the tollway/HOV combinations that urn down the middle of the Katy. Afton Oaks doesn't own Richmond, but they for sure have an interest in their property not being destroyed to make way for a train just to make it easier for some folks to get to the Galleria. Metro demonstrated with the first rail line that they care little for the people who live along the tracks, or who have businesses. That project destroyed Main as a useful street, and has made turns impractical for large sections of Fannin and San Jacinto. The north side expansion is worse.

Pretty self serving article for the writer. There is a huge difference between running a limited service between Houston and Galveston and running commuter rail all over the region. There were/is no where near enough track to support commuter rail, and, I suspect, no way the existing rail companies would let commuter rail run on their tracks in an large scale operation. Successful commuter rail requires far larger amounts of track than freight, something those who complain about the demolition of the rail right of way along the Katy Freeway conveniently forget.

My girlfriend had her purse snatched at the Shamrock 6 in 1979. Otherwise, I don't remember much about it.

So, you don' think that the owner of a piece of property should have the right to do use his own aesthetic values on his own property? I'm curious as to why you think your architectural views ought to override the wishes of the property owner. What makes your views more valid than someone who disagrees?

We read all that the first time it was posted.

I bought a ton of stuff at Garden Ridge Pottery on I-10 near Fry before I moved overseas in 1990. The store had been there a while, since some time in the late 80's. Lots of cheap crap. Of course, this was the era where WalMart sold mostly American made stuff, some of which I still ahve 23 years later, particularly kitchen things.

the shall only applies to bicycles that are slower than traffic: "...who is moving slower than the other traffic on the roadway shall ride as near as practicable to the right curb..." I would say that doesn't mean the bike has to move to the curb and proceed past stopped traffic. but, I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.

Shepherd being one way won't hurt any business. It's dead easy to go around any block from 12th to 26th.

Any neighborhood can fight that battle. Afton Oaks was successful. I am curious as to why your commute to the Galleria area should be more important than the property rights of the folks in Afton Oaks.

The housing moves out because people want affordable single family housing with yards. A family with two kids would have a hard time living in my 2BR 1 bath house inside the Loop, even if they thought the $260k price tag was affordable. And once the housing is built, the roads have to follow, just to avoid the horrific conditions that existed on FM1960 before it was widened and made usable. The only people I know at work who want to live in apartments near the office are single with no kids. And a large percentage of the young singles are actually buying in the suburbs.

Right, because we should all lay down and let the government tell us what to do, even if it means destroying our neighborhood or business.

You were the one that claimed there's a bike path at 11th and Yale. How else would that sentence above be interpreted? I've never seen enough pedestrians/bikes to justify a signal at any of the crossings. And since CoH can't get signals on real streets coordinated correctly, lights at bike paths would be a pain for traffic, since the red would appear whether there are any bikes/pedestrians or not.

I've looked and looked, but still can't find the bike trail at 11th and Yale. 11th and Nicholson, yes, bike lane at 11th and Heights, yes, bike trail at Yale and 7th, yes, but not at 11th and Yale. So, I guess this is a non-issue.

You have to register to actually search. Once you've done that, do a criminal search for whatever name you are interested in. Really useful site.