Ross

If you look at the map, it has things like 52 xxx at Almeda, 52 yyy at Northwest.

We have friends on one of the streets South of White Oak who were unable to get their cars out on one occasion when White Oak was closed. They are more careful now about moving them in front of the house before events. Police told them "too bad, so sad" when they asked about getting their car out the one time.

Closing White Oak can be an issue for the folks whose garages are on the alley that only opens onto White Oak.

Given that the interurban was dead at that point, what else do you think was going to happen? According to my Dad, who rode the Houston Galveston line, as well as teh Houston Baytown line, most folks were more interested in buying a car than worrying about whether the interurban was still around. Besides, it disappeared 70+ years ago, and it's not really rational to complain about it now.

That should probably be reworded to "more likely to be successful", since humans fo not alway sact as predicted.

when MF1960 was widened from 2 lanes to it's present size, congestion was greatly decreased. If you think it' bad now, you should have seen it before.Increasing surface street capacity can reduce congestion.

First few, and a couple of the later ones, are from the South towards UH, looking over the new large houses off of South McGregor way and Rosenheath

In a word, no. Nearly all gas stations are now independently owned (albeit by companies that own a number of stations, as opposed to a sole proprietor type arrangement), the oil companies having sold their stations over the past decade or so, because it's a low margin business that's a pain to run and has potential liabilities that outweigh the benefits.

Exxon at Shepherd and 11th. Many gas stations were closed to remediate leaking underground storage tanks and never reopened. I remember when the Exxon property above was for sale, the sign had a notice on it "Not for motor fuel sales", so presumably there is a deed restriction on that property. More recently, the Valero at Durham and 11th had the tanks removed, and is not a Title Max.

Before becoming a call center, that was a Price Club, which was later merged into Costco. The subdivision is actually named Price Club. Before Price Club, there was a par 3 golf course there. Personally, I think the golf course was a better use of that land.

The school did not own the land before the county. The only dorm was as mentioned previously at the base of the Main Street Bridge. One of the jail buildings was indeed a cold storage place, and the announcement that it would become a jail mightily peeved the student body at UHD (I was going there at the time)

Here's a page from Wysk that lists the principals of the owning company and their companies: http://www.wysk.com/search/doEntitySearch.cfm?q=NADEEM%20NASIR

and with all of the out of towners, and suburbanites, who go there, there will be mass confusion. There's nothing wrong with the left turns on Fannin.

Have you ever been to that area? You cannot get to most of the turn ins on the East side of Fannin from Main. That's why the left turns across the rail were built in the first place.

That's one of the most ridiculous things I've heard this year. Eliminating the left turns in the TMC area would make it nearly impossible to get into a large portion of the parking and building entrances without going 20 blocks South on Fannin to make a U-turn. Many of those turns offer no means to go around the block.

Only for narcissists, and Houston doesn't suffer from that. It's a "take us as we are kind of place.

They are eliminated, except where they can't be due to difficulties in going around the block, or limited access from other directions.

Her's some information on the Red River Raft, one of the great natural obstacles in the early days: http://www.redriverhistorian.com/greatraft.html

I've never heard a good answer to that question. Of course, it does break the whole "we must do something now" mantra.

Why? What is the benefit of that over 2 50 story buildings?

The food at HGS is pretty good, but overpriced, and the service is spotty. We've eaten there a couple of times, once for breakfast and once for dinner. Service was the worst part of both visits.

That's pretty much because developers here put economics ahead of vanity.

Looks like it's still there. HCAD shows construction year as 1955, and Google maps still shows a badly overgrown front yard

There are a lot of people who live out there, and a lot of businesses to serve their needs.

Time to complain loudly and frequently to your council member and the at larges. Ask them why the City doesn't care, snd that you expect their support.