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12 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said:

Does anyone know who is responsible for maintaining these new bike lanes? Like if we notice a repair or clean up needed on one of the lanes. 

Probably 311 since the lanes are on city streets

Didn't get any pics, but they switched the 288 NB traffic to the new NB lanes today. It'll be a while before people get used to the 610 exit being in the left lane. People were backed up at Yellowstone trying to make a u-turn back to 288 SB to 610.

15 hours ago, Highrise Tower said:

I wish I could find old pictures of what this area was like before the freeway. 

17 hours ago, MaxConcrete said:

It's a separate project from the 288 toll lanes and adjacent interchange. The $117 million contract was awarded to Williams Brothers in September 2018 (not 2019). I was wondering if the contract actually proceeded since nothing happened for over a year. Now I'm thinking it was delayed to allow the interchange work to be completed, and/or to avoid interference between contractors.

http://www.dot.state.tx.us/insdtdot/orgchart/cmd/cserve/bidtab/09063002.htm

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?

On 5/2/2020 at 5:39 PM, MaxConcrete said:

I would say the connection is not "from the interchange" but rather is from the westbound 610 main lanes. The exit will have a flyover to go over the connections from SH 288. This project will extend the 610 bridge over Almeda to also go over Cambridge. I drove through the area today and all traffic is on the south side of the existing pavement to allow work to start on the new westbound bridge over Cambridge.

 

 

 

 

 

Is this part of the 288 project or a separate project?

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

14 hours ago, Naviguessor said:

Wait. So, you’d gather with people?  To eat...food?  Prepared by others?  Ridiculous. 

Yes. It was popular during the old times, before the beer plague hit us. Wonderful times they were!

43 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said:

Hey so did Franks offically close their doors? They weren’t open today. 

Don't forget, today was Easter Sunday, so some businesses were closed for the holiday.

On 4/4/2020 at 3:52 PM, BhutcA said:

To be like Atlanta, Georgia's Jackson-Hartsfield Airport. 

 

A terminal train line must be added! That'll be greatful for passengers! I've already rode the terminal train in the Hartsfield! 

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.?

30 minutes ago, kbates2 said:

i thought it was just reinforced?  It doesn’t look new.

It's brand new. Opened up in the past 1 or 2 years. It just has the old style guardrails like the original bridge.

On 6/17/2019 at 10:58 AM, Houston19514 said:

There's a cowboy museum in Houston???

Yes. It's a fully functioning ranch right in the shadow of Downtown. 

https://www.visithoustontexas.com/listings/american-cowboy-museum/19615/

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.

2 hours ago, quietstorm said:

Thursday evening...a good mix of convention goers and locals. There was a UHD sponsored concert Sunday Discovery Green as well. DT, in some pockets, has become a mini-destination 

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!

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. 

28 minutes ago, Luminare said:

 

 Should it be razed or kept? Depends on what ideas people have for it.

Yet another food hall?

HCC

6 hours ago, IronTiger said:

Land where the freeway is now was never part of UH, the university effectively ended past Calhoun, save for a few additional buildings and parking lots. As time went on, UH claimed most of the land, but that wasn't until after the freeway was built. What I'm curious of if it will include some sort of revamp for the Griggs/Mykawa railroad crossings.

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

2 hours ago, august948 said:

 

It will never be overkill as long as rush hour traffic exists.

Rush hour traffic will always exist, so that means the biggest, widest, baddest freeway ever built won't be overkill. 🤷‍♂️

1 hour ago, zaphod said:

Beyond the segments described as in the works, where do they think it will go from there?

 

I can try to imagine a narrow right-of-way alignment straddling the railroad tracks similar to the Hardy Toll Road, but past the Beltway it would run into the old part of Pearland and there would be significant eminent domain required.

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 

Existing thread: 

On 4/6/2019 at 11:47 AM, plumber2 said:

I remember a poorly maintained abandoned train track crossing on Westheimer about in front of what is present day Katz restaurant. It was horrible, and probably broke many a shock absorber. Why the city didn't just pull up the old tracks embedded in the pavement instead of just continually paving over it,  I'll never know? It's been gone for years now, but I remember it still being there as a young driver as late as 1970. However I'm sure the GMC Dreamliners handled it much better than the Grumman's would have. Those Dreamliners were solid!

Probably was the old GH&SA line that had the bridge over Buffalo Bayou where the pedestrian bridge is now.

15 minutes ago, Texasota said:

Oh, so they're linking it up with the little spur behind UH?

https://www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/projects/studies/houston/sh-35-harris-county.html

 

Great, just what campus needs. An active freeway running through it.

Spur 5 has always been intended to be part of SH 35. It's nothing new.

On 3/1/2019 at 6:37 PM, BeerNut said:

Southmore Bridge design

Wow! That's nice. Are there other angles of this rendering available? 

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.