cynative

I noticed on Sunday that there are cameras at Cypress Rosehill and 2920! I know that is not the City of Houston doing that. It could be the new cameras that detect an emergency vehicles lights coming and automatically gives everone else a red light so they can get through an intersection.

Custom cabinets tops and bottoms, painted or stained, built on site - will ususally run around 400-550 per linear foot. No countertops included. Orders from Home Depot and refacing will usually be close to that also (or more in some cases). The only way to find a good contractor is personal referal, IMO. And if they can start tomorrow, don't hire them. Any one who is really good is not going to be able to start that quickly, because they are too busy.

I know I'm in the Woodlands when.... I am either starving or out of gas and can't find a drive thru or a gas station because of all the trees and the microscopic signs that you can't see until you've already passed them.

The intersection of Fairbanks-North Houston and Little York would probably be the closest to the middle of the Fairbanks area. It was a community in the country. My father in law lived in the Heights as a kid and went there on Sundays to visit his kinfolks. (this would have been in the late 30's, early 40's) He spoke of a pizza joint on Little York at Guhn rd as a favorite place to go. It was it's own school district and later merged with Cypress, thus Cypress-Fairbanks ISD.

He also talked about going to Jersey Village to visit the dairy and get ice cream.

Got one...........Cy-Fair Chamber has been around for years and years.

I never went there as a teen, because my neighborhood had a pool...but lots of my school friends in the early 70's went to Hot Wells to go swimming. They also went to Tin Hall on the weekends to whoop it up. You could always tell who went to Tin Hall by the bruises on Monday morning from the fist fights they would get into! Ahh, the good old days!!

Ever notice the line of traffic on the inbound feeder at the Barker Cypress light? They go down and u-turn at Skinner to come back up and turn south on B-C. Don't blame them, the back up on the outbound side is unreal. The freeway traffic even slows there because so many are trying to get off there. The same thing is coming for the southbound Fry traffic. It's already awful with those two lights, and like you said the Skinner dead end could be rerouted around to the old highway to help too.

I don't know how much TxDot pays these consulting firms to help them decide things, but they could ask anyone who drives 290 everyday and get it for free. It wouldn't take much to figure this out!

What draws them? Brand new schools everywhere. All new neighborhoods with parks, etc. The Berry Center - where it appears there will be concerts, events, etc. (CFISD is now in the entertainment venue business!) Cy Fair College/good library. Proximity to the country (or what's left of it). I don't really know. I've always liked it myself, so other than these things, I'm not sure.

There are some things that could be done immediately, but TXDOT won't listen when I tell them.

Add a feeder between Huffmeister and 1960 on the eastbound side of 290. (or if not, then a continuous merge lane) They told me that if and when that happens the landowners in front of it have to pay for the feeder!

Second, on the westbound side, add an additional continuous merge lane between the hollister entrance and fairbanks exit, and also between the fairbanks entrance and gessner exit.

These two things would make a huge difference, because these are the bottleneck places.

Eventually Barker Cypress is going to need a 'woodlands parkway' type ramp from westbound 290 to southbound Barker Cypress. There will be over 200,000 people on that side within a short time. It is already to the point of ridiculous.

The timing of lights at the spring cypress and cypress rosehill feeder intersections are not right either.

Oh well, they won't listen to anyone. I don't know what good it does to go to their meetings - they don't really want our input even though we drive it everyday and know how to fix it.

That property backs up to commercial that lines right up on 290. The area I'm talking about is a huge area several miles North of 290.

The HAR property linked above is between Huffmeister and Fenske, and does not back up to the commercial properties on 290, nor does it touch the area of the propsed Grand Parkway. It is sort of in between the two, and that is a ridiculous price.

It appears that the mass clearing between Cypress-Rosehill and Mueschke is also going to extend Huffmeister from Cypress Church to Mueschke. Anybody have any info on this area? Looks like just a lot of parcels making up lots of separate dumpy (or soon to be) neighborhoods, but maybe I'm wrong - hope so.

I will be thrilled to have an HEB out here, but the traffic at that whole intersection is a nightmare any time of day. I seldom go to Randalls because of it. I guess coming in the backside from Jarvis would be best.

I am dissappointed that the Vintage HEB store will be more like the Woodlands and not the Central Mkt in Highland Village. I took my sister to the Woodlands store thinking they were the same and was very dissappointed. They didn't have a lot of the things I go to HV for, and were pretty snippy when I asked various people about it. Guess I'll still have to go there for the good stuff!

(new here, but have been reading this section for months, lots of great info)