kylejack
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It is not a low number of parking spots, it is more parking spots than any other job center in Houston except for Downtown. Yes, of course the demand is far higher, that's my point. I'm going to ask one more time for your evidence that a majority of the people working at TMC park at Smithlands before giving up on you. You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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Marfreless opened in 1972, relocated to current location 1976.
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Peter Brown For Houston Mayor
kylejack replied to crunchtastic's topic in General Houston Discussions
Peter Brown would be working with the same budget. It is easy to be a sidewalk advocate when playing in an activist role rather than a public official. I applaud his advocacy work, but I am skeptical that the sidewalk situation would be much different. Whose responsibility is the sidewalk? The City says the property owner. Yet there is no penalty for a homeowner failing to build a sidewalk. I don't see how changing the Mayor changes that. -
Yes. I've worked in TMC for many years. TMC has 28,000 parking spaces in their parking system. Because as an employment center, TMC is also a place where people get service, that is, medical care. A massive number of patients come to TMC for care. This differs from, for example, Greenway Plaza. While some businesses provide service on-site at Greenway Plaza, most of the businesses there are office space where customers don't have to come to interface. A good example is Direct Energy. This means that parking is only needed for employees, not employees and customers. Please show me the statistics you're pulling your data from. I ride the train from Downtown to TMC. Many other Med Center workers do as well. Please show me your statistics that a majority of Med Center workers park at Smithlands (as opposed to the 28,000 spaces in the Med Center, Fannin South, Midtown, or Downtown, or bike commuting). You don't have these statistics because you are incorrect. I've lived Downtown for the past six years and I don't own a car. Of course I have.
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Well, that would have been nice. And they tried. But after removing the facade, the brick wasn't in good condition. They would have had to redo the entire thing.
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No federal funding has been approved for any version of the University Line. Culberson has been anti-rail even back to when they were building the original Red Line. When the plan changes, he'll oppose the new plan too.
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No, Culberson has now gotten it banned from Richmond anywhere west of Shepherd.
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Yes, that's true. http://www.gometrorail.org/clients/2491/372235.pdf But the Richmond rail opponents want it off of Richmond entirely.
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Plan by who? Certainly not METRO. They wanted Richmond, and Culberson and others pointed to a referendum vote that had it on Westpark originally.
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Paul Carr Fired From Houston Heights Association
kylejack replied to poyea's topic in Local Politics
That's all moot. HHA met with their insurance people and the train was determined safe enough to stay right where it is. It is telling that they are keeping the train and dropping the guy. -
There is not enough room to create two lanes of traffic without removing some sidewalk. The current lane as it is is not very wide. Bicycle and car can't travel side by side. No interest in removing more sidewalk.
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How many of those were already lousy pointless streets to drive on?
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JW Marriott Hotel Galleria At 5150 Westheimer Rd.
kylejack replied to 286liger's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
JW Marriott is the luxury property. Someone looking for the best Marriott experience shouldn't have to guess which one is the better property. This simplifies it. -
Major reconstruction... You're proposing a project that will costs tens of millions of dollars, relocating a rail line to Travis.
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Well I never got an answer as to why it is so crucial to maintain motorist traffic on Main Street. The speed limit in all of Downtown is 30.
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I'd recommend checking it out at night. Anyway, it's like saying that a bridge isn't needed in a particular area because nobody is swimming across the river. Building pedestrian-friendly environments will attract new pedestrians. And so what? There's no need for Either/Or. We can do that then, and still do this now. Cutting the lanes to one is precisely what makes it not a great street to drive on. So simply redirect that traffic to other streets with better capacity. If you're talking about in front of Flying Saucer, all that has been taken out to build the transfer station. Why is it advantageous to preserve motorist traffic on Main Street? What purpose does it serve? There are no garage entrances on Main Street. There is precious little street parking available. All of the properties are accessible from other streets. Driving on Main is a futile experience because of the aforementioned reasons. They do not, because my idea is the best idea.
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I've lived in the same building as Flying Saucer for 4 years. People do squeeze by, and that portion of sidewalk is particularly narrow after factoring in the Flying Saucer's patio and fence. There is no need for cars on Main Street downtown. It's a lousy place to drive. You can never turn left. You can only travel several blocks before Main Street Square forces you to turn off onto another street. The roads parallel to Main are 4 lanes wide or better.
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So we protect the pedestrians by putting cars in their way as well as the train? That seems odd. Seems to me reducing the vehicles to dodge makes them safer.
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Yes, I think foot traffic and a friendly pedestrian environment would be a boon for all the new bars and restaurants coming in on the North end of Main Street.
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Close the rest of Main Street to vehicular traffic, through Downtown at least. That's my dream.
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e.g. http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/skyhouse-tower-retail-plan.jpg
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Well, then you don't seem to be accounting for the surface parking that will exist in the Sky House development.
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Sky House block had buildings on it that had to be demolished.
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The very first scene could have been a street in Midtown or Museum District over 59 or 288. Other than that, there were no exterior scenes that seemed to be shot in Houston, except one Downtown shot from the Sabine Street bridge. Certainly not the park with the giant fountains. Edit: Nope, I used an apartment complex sign to confirm the location of the first scene. It was shot in Los Angeles, right here: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tesoro+Del+Valle&ll=34.07858,-118.220007&spn=0.002894,0.004128&client=firefox-a&fb=1&gl=us&cid=2619391441908811940&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=34.078648,-118.2199&panoid=cxK5t20F5Df6aK3zMzC3ig&cbp=12,56.52,,0,1.93
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Ruggles Grill space is going to be FM 903, a restaurant from Ryan Hildebrand, chef/owner of Triniti. I don't know if the Smoothie King lot will be used for this project too. http://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/10-23-13-long-delayed-restaurant-finally-on-track-to-open-major-chefs-project-isnt-dead-after-all/ Edit: Smoothie King has a Westheimer address. 3205 Montrose would be that small building next to it. Long live the Smoothie King.
