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    I can't tell from the schematic, but are they extending the current Almeda overpass structure, or constructing an all new overpass structure over Almeda and Cambridge?
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    Is this part of the 288 project or a separate project?
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    The new ramp from 69/59 NB to 610 SB is now open. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/Key-ramp-to-Loop-610-opens-offering-some-relief-15213306.php?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow#photo-15153330
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    Yes. It was popular during the old times, before the beer plague hit us. Wonderful times they were!
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    Don't forget, today was Easter Sunday, so some businesses were closed for the holiday.
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    I noticed what look like straddle bents going over the 610 WB feeder just before Almeda. I guess that's for the direct connector from the interchange to Almeda Rd.?
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    It's brand new. Opened up in the past 1 or 2 years. It just has the old style guardrails like the original bridge.
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    Yes. It's a fully functioning ranch right in the shadow of Downtown. https://www.visithoustontexas.com/listings/american-cowboy-museum/19615/
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    Hopefully Chartres underneath the ramp has been re-opened so I can get directly to Pease in the mornings without detouring along Gray to one of the northbound streets.
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    That top photo really looks like one of those architectural renderings with people all about in different, somewhat unrealistic poses. All it took was a comic convention for it to play out in real life. Nice!
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    The old DeBakey High School for Health Professions on Shenandoah St. is coming down. I suspect it might have something to do with the new UTHealth Psychiatric Hospital being built across the street from it. Perhaps it'll be the site of parking as the new hospital will displace a parking lot. This is the only photo I could find of the demolition process.
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    Yet another food hall?
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    Where Am I?

    JLWM8609 replied to hindesky's topic in Off Topic

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    This schematic shows the railroad crossings remaining as-is under the freeway, but that can always change. http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot/get-involved/hou/sh35-i610/040618-schematic2.pdf
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    Rush hour traffic will always exist, so that means the biggest, widest, baddest freeway ever built won't be overkill. 🤷‍♂️
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    I found this article about the freeway. Looks like they were asking that question 50 years and never answered it. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Expansion-of-Alvin-freeway-may-yet-be-completed-1982804.php
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    Existing thread:
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    Probably was the old GH&SA line that had the bridge over Buffalo Bayou where the pedestrian bridge is now.
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    Spur 5 has always been intended to be part of SH 35. It's nothing new.
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    Wow! That's nice. Are there other angles of this rendering available?
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    A sound barrier is going up at Ardmore and Tampa, and as of last week, they've started re-energizing some of the freeway lighting, with more sections being re-lit each night. Most of the lampposts have new LED lights, which I'm glad to see instead of removing the lampposts and slapping high mast lighting as they've done on almost every other freeway in town.
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    Bus manufacturers learned to build stronger buses after the Grumman 870 A-frame crack issue in the early 80s that impacted transit fleets nationwide, including Houston. Potholes in places like NYC were causing the frames to crack and the buses to sag in the middle and eventually stop. I wouldn't be surprised if Westheimer was the cause of some of those frame cracks way back then!
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    I didn't know they were constructing a pedestrian bridge. I never saw one in the schematics.
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    Fuddruckers is closed. I pass by there on a semi-regular basis and it shut down sometime in November or December 2018.
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